In times past, was it not easier to share audio output devices on Linux computers with normal networking or Bluetooth? I never much cared for audio application

In times past, was it not easier to share audio output devices on Linux computers with normal networking or Bluetooth? I never much cared for audio applications but I can distinctly remember it being trivial to use my Ubuntu PC as an audio device for pretty much anything else. Dread to think of the Bluetooth delay though.