cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
Bluetooth is very buggy, but it’s not too much of a deal breaker.
I’ve noticed most people saying Bluetooth is buggy use Ubuntu or something based off it.
I wonder if true. Haven’t had any issues on Fedora or Arch builds with it in recent years.
I had issues on Fedora, but it was solved by doing a power reset. Apparently when you get a kernel update you have to do that. All that troubleshooting and researching was useless lol. I just wish I knew that was the issue, and not my hardware, cause I almost bought a Bluetooth dongle.
The audio quality with my pixel buds on fedora is terrible, and connecting only works half the time.
For your audio quality: Have you installed
pipewire-codec-aptxfrom RPMFusion? Fedora ships without patent encumbered audio and video codecs (and some other software) for legal reasons.That could be it actually. I’ll try that.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure whether mine wasn’t working due to hardware issues or the software. Haven’t dug in to debug it much because I don’t really use it, but the times I have tried, it failed. It could sometimes connect to some devices but the connection wouldn’t be stable and no useful data transferred before it dropped.
Not even sure I have the tools to debug it. Does BT have a loopback mode to test if bits in are the same as bits out? Does wireshark work at the physical link level?