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2 HN users recommended this between 2021 and 2022, in 4 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2021 and 2022, in 4 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Have you tried a bluetooth headset dongle? NOT a general bluetooth dongle, but something specifically designed for headsets, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089PYFLBN
I had dramatically better luck with that, which AFAICT just presents to the OS as a USB-C headset, and has an entirely-internal bluetooth stack.
Or just try using your phone - I connect both phone and computer to zoom meetings for instance. For some reason, desktop OSes / bluetooth chip stacks are absolutely awful compared to the ones in iOS / Android devices. Nearly everything connects to my Pixel 4a just fine, while nearly everything stutters when connected to my MacBook, and often doesn't connect at all to my Dell.
My issue with bluetooth audio on linux is when playing games or other application that max out the cpu, the bluetooth process can be starved of cpu time and begin to stutter. I ended up using a bluetooth audio transmitter [1] (it presents itself as a usb audio device on linux) to work around the issue.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Indica...
I was having stuttering issues with Bluetooth when the CPU is under 100% utilization (e.g. playing games) and I was able to sidestep the issue completely by using a bluetooth audio adapter like this one [1]. The adapter present itself as a USB audio adapter and able to function just fine even when the CPU is under 100% utilization.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Indica...
For those with bluetooth woes:
I've had better luck in all operating systems with a stand-alone USB bluetooth audio dongle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089PYFLBN
It's not perfect, but the combination of "you can select the codec" and "the bluetooth stack is 100% out of the hands of the OS" gave me dramatically better results on almost every headset I tried.