Thanks for the confirming and also for the insight into the problem itself. 
I wonder what exactly Easel looks for in order to determine that the local software is installed. It seems like it could be any number of things although I imagine itās just checking for the existence of a running daemon/service?
Yeah, good question. I can tell you that itās not the browser type. I tried the āChrome UA Spooferā and set it to a couple different Windows browser types with no luck. I finally decided it wasnāt worth my time to diddle with it any further.
No problems with Linux here at all! Iām using Fedora 21 on an old laptop in my basement to control my XCarve+GShield setup. UGS is my workhorse and runs great, as does Easel. Iāve done simple signs, intricate 2.5D carves, and am using my machine to build a 4 foot foam sculpture. Iāve even got a webcam on the thing so I can keeps tabs on long jobs from my office.
Iāve found Ubuntu to have too many bugs to work reliably, and I just canāt work very effectively on Win or OSX. Thereās no reason to avoid CNC if Linux is your OS of choice. Welcome!
You run Easel on Linux?
Thanks Mark! Because of the very promising responses here ā yours included ā I see no reason not to go with the X-Carveās default controller configuration. Iām ready to order as soon as Inventables responds with the best way for me to order the X-Carve (as Iām going to be extending its Y-axis right out of the gate).
Sure, you can run the design part of Easel just fine on Linux - that part is fully browser based. You just canāt use it as a Gcode sender/machine controller from there. If you export the project as GCode and feed it into UGS, youāll be making chips very quickly.
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I must be remembering wrong, then. I recall using Easel to design and send the gcode to the machine, but I must have been booted into Win7 at the time (I have ~5 Linux machines, one mac laptop, and one Win7 partition). My bad! I donāt use Easel any more because UGS does all the complex stuff, and I learned enough gcode that I can manually type commands for basic cuts (also within UGS).
As part of the Linuxcnc project, there are g-code generators for some common functions (pocket, facing, bolt hole patterns, etc). These are standalone so donāt require Linuxcnc and, being written in Python, will run under WIndows.
Handy tools to add to the toolbox.
I am using Fedora 37, and am able to use Easel to send code to the x-carve. A slight challenge to convert the .deb driver to an .rpm, but I used a tool called alien to make that conversion. Once I installed the resulting .rpm file, Easel can control the machine just as it does with Windows or Mac.