Also audio is weird
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 months ago
Bluetooth sucks on my fedora desktop
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 months ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
The transition from ALSA to Pulse never really fully happened and a lot of backend stuff is still dependent on ALSA. If you ever find that you have an audio channel that is just not working for no apparent reason (like audio input), run
alsamixerand check if the channel is muted there.I’ve found this multiple times on new Ubuntu-derivative installs, and the channel muting in ALSA is not reflected anywhere in the desktop GUI audio settings and can’t be adjusted through them, but nothing is technically broken - you just have to raise the volume on that channel via alsamixer. It’s a very annoying gotcha.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
God, the ALSA-PulseAudio Wars never fucking ended, and we’ve been stranded ever since. It’s the Wayland/X11 windowing struggle all over again!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
What we need is a new system
CameronDev@programming.dev 6 months ago
To be fair, Bluetooth sucks on Windows desktops as well. The hardware is just garbage a lot of the time
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 months ago
weird it’s so good on my iphone
CameronDev@programming.dev 6 months ago
Your iPhone was designed for Bluetooth, on laptops and desktops its an after thought.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 months ago
Bluetooth has been pretty useful for me; the only problem I run into is device detection, sometimes, but once the two devices pair, rarely are there further problems in the file transfer process.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 months ago
I’ll blame the drivers (and some of that blame lands on MS).
CameronDev@programming.dev 6 months ago
Some of the cheap USB hardware are unofficial clones, which get disabled by the official drivers. The clones sometimes work in Linux, but not reliably. It can be really hit and miss.