Comment by anvuong

Thanks for the nice writing. But do you have any insight on why is bluetooth audio so clunky on Linux? I'm using a pair of Sony XM4 and I have never had any problems on my 4 Windows machines. But on Ubuntu (both 22.04 and 24.04), I have had to jump through many hoops, from editing a bunch of config files, changing kernel flags, disable and enable a bunch of things I don't understand (mostly from reading Arch Wiki), just to get it working some of the times. Some days it will just outright refuse to connect, sometime it connects but not playing anything (switching audio device to it generates some undecipherable error logs), and (probably worst) sometime it connects very quickly but stay locked in low fidelity mode instead of a2dp sink. I'm so fed up that I just switched to wired headphones every time I use my Ubuntu.