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[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 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

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?)

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 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