• ansiz@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Bluetooth with mobile devices I’d agree. But my work pc hates Bluetooth devices. Such as refusing to use the correct audio channel with headphones, so I still use wired headphones.

    I’ve always felt Windows could be temperament with Bluetooth, especially pre Windows 7. Like XP seemed to be a shitshow for Bluetooth.

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      7 months ago

      Bluetooth audio has always been absolutely awful in windows as far as I recall. Bluetooth in general is super temperamental, I recall fighting with data loggers my first job out of uni that only connected via Bluetooth. Older ones were serial and were actually reliable.

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        7 months ago

        Bluetooth reliability by OS

        Android > Ubuntu > iOS (because of the stupid automatic turn back on anti-feature) > Windows > Linux Lite (possibly due to 2009 hardware?)

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          7 months ago

          For real Bluetooth is near flawless in Debian and Mint from my experience, mint is on a 2013 laptop too with no issues to modern speakers.

          Personally I prefer hard wire for audio where possible but it’s really convenient for a garage speaker and kitchen speaker

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        7 months ago

        I’ve had bad results on Mac OSX as well.

        It’s partly a timing thing, and maybe that puts the issues in the apps. If I am using my headset, it also works in things like Teams and Slack. However audio doesn’t want to switch if I turn in the headset in the app. Even worse, if I turn the headset on right before launching a call. It’s better now that I turn in the headset, then do a slow count to ten before starting a call, but still not reliable

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      7 months ago

      I hate everything wireless when it comes to PC peripherals. They just randomly stop working or have a weird, noticeable lag. I have a 3 bucks WLAN adapter on my RPi that surprisingly works OK, but that’s it.