@Crispin, your topic has been moved to a more suitable location on the forum. Installation and Troubleshooting is not for problems with your project 
See About the IDE 1.x category
That's only needed for boards with native USB (like Arduino Leonardo or Sparkfun ProMicro). Does your ESP32 have native USB support (can be used as a HID)? And only if you don't want to loose the first bytes that the board sends.