Giovanni wrote:3) I had to add an arcane group into my administrator user in order to access USB com ports.
4) I had to add an arcane rule to /etc/somewhere to make OpenOCD work.
That steps was need some years ago but now you just need to add yourself to standard "plugdev" group.
Giovanni wrote:5) I had to add an environment variable to make Eclipse NOT use GTK3 because of visual bugs.
GTK totally rotten in version 3. Sad but true. You can read more here https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11 ... in-threes/
For Eclipse users I would also recommend to delete all *.css files from "css" directory to achieve more native look.