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It's much more reliable to use a usb bluetooth audio dongle instead of connecting your bluetooth headphones directly for gaming. During a gaming session, the bl

It's much more reliable to use a usb bluetooth audio dongle instead of connecting your bluetooth headphones directly for gaming. During a gaming session, the bluetooth stack might be cpu-starved and starts to stutter or even lose connection. A usb bluetooth audio dongle is detected as an external audio device (mic and speaker) by linux which will bypass this issue entirely, and usually has lower latency codex support as well (I have a hard time getting aptx working on linux). You then connect your bluetooth headphones to the dongle (usually by putting your headphone in pairing mode, then pressing a button in the dongle, and it'll automatically connect to it) instead of your pc.

hju22_-3 3y ago
Good to know, but this is just an example of the issues OP described; needing yet another workaround instead.
- washadjeffmad 3y ago
  "There are no LinuxPods, and if there were, I doubt they'd go in your ears." It's a workaround that demonstrates how Bluetooth, and especially BT audio, are still "hard". So much so, that a company designed and built a proprietary product and tech stack whose entire acclaim is that its Bluetooth audio works reasonably well. And even owning the entire stack, Apple can't make it perfect. In Mac Minis at least up to 2019, because of the BT radio's proximity to the USB traces, interference from communication rates when certain USB devices are attached causes the BT peripherals to fail. And I don't mean when the rare noisy 2.4GHz product is attached, I mean USB 2.0 mass storage devices, printers, and more that otherwise work perfectly well cause Magic Mice and Keyboards to completely not respond or else have mere inches of laggy range. You can forget BT audio in those cases. There's no beating radio physics, so our engineering solution was to add Bluetooth dongles on USB extenders to a few dozen Mac Mini installations. BT sucks, but it's what we have.
  - aPoCoMiLogin 3y ago
    had a lot of issues with magic keyboard & trackpad, plenty of times they just disconnected, not to mention apple still doesn't show the battery level for a lot of BT devices. after switching to linux, BT has the same issues just multiplied because now there is N vendors with each having their own quirks.
aPoCoMiLogin 3y ago
I was just reading your comment when my BT headphones disconnected from the USB BT dongle and had to restart the BT service, what a timing haha

hju22_-3 3y ago

Good to know, but this is just an example of the issues OP described; needing yet another workaround instead.

washadjeffmad 3y ago
"There are no LinuxPods, and if there were, I doubt they'd go in your ears." It's a workaround that demonstrates how Bluetooth, and especially BT audio, are still "hard". So much so, that a company designed and built a proprietary product and tech stack whose entire acclaim is that its Bluetooth audio works reasonably well. And even owning the entire stack, Apple can't make it perfect. In Mac Minis at least up to 2019, because of the BT radio's proximity to the USB traces, interference from communication rates when certain USB devices are attached causes the BT peripherals to fail. And I don't mean when the rare noisy 2.4GHz product is attached, I mean USB 2.0 mass storage devices, printers, and more that otherwise work perfectly well cause Magic Mice and Keyboards to completely not respond or else have mere inches of laggy range. You can forget BT audio in those cases. There's no beating radio physics, so our engineering solution was to add Bluetooth dongles on USB extenders to a few dozen Mac Mini installations. BT sucks, but it's what we have.
- aPoCoMiLogin 3y ago
  had a lot of issues with magic keyboard & trackpad, plenty of times they just disconnected, not to mention apple still doesn't show the battery level for a lot of BT devices. after switching to linux, BT has the same issues just multiplied because now there is N vendors with each having their own quirks.

aPoCoMiLogin 3y ago

I was just reading your comment when my BT headphones disconnected from the USB BT dongle and had to restart the BT service, what a timing haha