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Is Bluetooth getting worse on Linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm noticing a lot of issues with bluetooth popping up, and they only seem to be getting worse.

First it was my PS3 controller. Randomly stopped working with bluetooth after an update.

Then I noticed bluetooth sometimes just... crashes and doesn't recover. There's probably some weird/sketchy command I can use to reset it, but I've just resorted to rebooting whenever it happened.

Now my bluetooth speaker just straight up fails to connect. I was using it, the connection 'failed', and now it won't connect. Lol.

Meanwhile on my phone it works just fine.

Is anyone else having issues? Does it feels like the quality of bluetooth support has diminished in recent months?

To me, this feels like some new contributors are doing things they shouldn't be doing or some other cultural shift among them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What kind of bluetooth adapter do you have? There are some knock off USB adapters around that sorta work, but then crash and die sporadically. I havent had much luck with them in linux.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1205962/bluetooth-dongle-problem - some more info here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's just the one that's in my laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably not counterfeit then, i would hope anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, and it worked (mostly) fine until recently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

These adapters worked fine for a while for me as well, i had one work fine for a few years, but only recently did the driver support break for it. It was some new feature added to the driver that the hardware didnt support (from memory, i could be wrong)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

FWIW, I've had no issues here with my Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 and Fedora 39 (Bazzite).I use my 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth controller almost daily as well as my Sony WH1000-XM5 headphones, both work just fine.

I'm on BlueZ v5.72 and kernel v6.6.14

What distro / kernel / BlueZ are you on? If you're not on the latest BlueZ and/or a recent kernel, you should update them.