why is bluetooth on linux always such an uphill battle is it

Because no-one uses it I guess.

>bluetooth
>2017
for what purpose?

install Linux Mint

>>61699438
>>61699422
im gay and i sat on my laptop once and fucked the jack

>>61699466
I dont want to die alone

>>61699438
What else would you use?

>>61699438
? sound devices, headsets, controllers, mice, keyboard, pen stylus. IoT shit if you want.

Works out of the box on my 2510p. The fucking network light blinks continuously if I disable it though so it stays on permanently, consuming power.

>>61699373
bluetooth is an uphill battle in any OS, on pc, in the car, etc

it's the worst piece of shit tech ever invented, I've never ever known it to work reliably, let alone just werk

>>61699373
works fine for me on both my desktop and laptop. desktop is arch with kde, laptop is galliumos with kde. what gay de are you using?

>>61699555
All which would function better wired with zero downside and restriction.
>sending your keystrokes plaintext over the air
I seriously hope you don't do this. Wireless keyboards are not secure.

>>61699373
Bluetooth on Linux has always just werk'd for me. Can't say the same about Windows.

>>61699373
The truth is, and this isn't just be talking out my ass, Bluetooth sucks, it's an awful awful standard that should never have gotten as popular as it is. Ask anyone with a technical background and they will tell you the same, but sadly, like with most standards, everyone is using it, so they keep building it into shit.

Bluetooth is from a time when power consumption and transmission rates were a main focus to keep the headsets and shit down to a cost people could afford, I mean hell, listen to someone talk to you over your headphones, then pop in a bluetooth headset, it sounds like lossy 8kbps bullshit. While bluetooth as a standard has improved it's still dragging all that legacy shit behind it. It needs to be abolished and replaced.

>>61699931
nigger please