Struggles with pairing.

[SkyBull14]

Hi! I've been struggling a lot with the pairing process.
I installed Linux Mint on an old system I had lying around and got a bluetooth dongle for it as well as dusted off a pair of my move controllers.
The prebuilt executable has straight up just threw me an access denied error, so I started going through the building guide which did succeeded, but following the pairing process the terminal says it detects the move controllers as I plug them in, but then throws an error and prompts me to make sure I plugged them in via USB, which I have.
No amount of retrying helped so I tried pairing it via the psmoveapi itself. Following their pairing guide in both the prebuilt version or a manually done version leaves me with the controllers asking for a PIN. In such a case the documentation prompts me to pair again via USB cable then press the PS button to pair via bluetooth. But it keeps asking for a PIN.
I would love to have some guidance as I am completely lost on what to do, other than just give up and go the wiimote + mayflash lightbar route.