Wired is king.
If I gotta do wireless I get one with a RF dongle/base.
Astro A50 Wireless. Needs a dongle but it's waaaay more stable than any bluetooth headset. Both on range and audio quality.
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Was it working fine before? I've been using Bluetooth headphones and wireless mouse on popos for a few months now and only had an issue on a machine yesterday. I think it was because I was swapping the drive with the os on the several different motherboards to test different cpus
It was working okay until 2-3 weeks ago, but there were always a few disconnection issues or the mouse would take time to be detected on startup.
The Surface Kernel was an improvement over the stock kernel, but it never really solved everything.
If I go back to wired, I’ll just reverse to the stock kernel.
Nobody yet has mentioned the obvious solution. Get a wireless mouse that doesn't use bluetooth. There's lots of different varieties, but my favourite is the Logitech G603.
I never understood those who buy on the hype of wireless-everything (that includes my own brother). Wireless is, and always will be flaky, even under a great OS implementation. Implementation is lacking on your kernel/distro, but even if it was done perfectly, you would still get the occasional problems, because, physics. This is is not seen as clearly with wifi or bt, but try to connect to a wireless monitor instead. There, you will see the problems 100x fold. It's flaky. So it's best to always be wired. Ethernet, usb etc.
Wireless devices let me use 2 different tables and an armchair+TV. That would simply not be an option otherwise.
The benefits of going wireless vastly outweigh an occasional connection annoyance to me. And worst case I can still plug them in.
My wireless g304 has been rock solid for years now. The battery lasts about 48 hours of active use before needing to be recharged. My Logitech ergo lift mouse has been rock solid for the past year as well and it's still running on it's very first battery!
I bought both for wrist pain reasons and for the most part they have also been very helpful for that too. Part of the reason I went wireless even for gaming is that the cable always dragged and caused issues with the mouse catching on occassion. It's very worth whatever "instability" you might see for any product that moves.
My wireless earbuds have been rock solid for several years as well. As far as I'm concerned, wireless has been a solved problem for a little while now, similar to printers. There's no point in needing a battery for something that doesn't move, like a keyboard, but damn if it isn't really nice for something that does.
I agree with the wireless being solved part, but printers still suck lol
Brother laser printers last for years without issue. My point was that so long as you put in a little effort to find something that isn't cheap shit you can actually get a product without any major issues.
Cheap wireless earbuds will fail, and will cause all sorts of frustration. On the other hand, well sourced earbuds will work for years without problems, just like printers.
Fair, I also have a brother laser printer and have never had issues. I was in IT Support for many years and boy were printers ever a problem.
Even cheap ear buds / headphones and mice these days seem to be perfectly stable wireless though. They may break physically or just have shitty performing hardware, but the wireless part itself has been pretty good these days
Well I clearly know that wired is way more reliable and efficient for a lot of things. I’d never charge my phone without a wire for instance.
Still I’m happy to have wifi at home or wireless controllers for my Playstation 5.
Depending on how your home is set up, it can be awful to have cables everywhere.
I gave up on Bluetooth and Linux, made sure the wireless peripherals I wanted had 2.4ghz dongles. Been using Logitech 2.4ghz lightspeed for a while. Dongle is plugged into a hub mounted under the desk. Use piper to get all my Logitech mouse features. No complaints.
I've been using the Asus BT400 without any issues in different distros. But I'd always recommend a cable mouse if you have a stationary setup
I'm in team wired. Nothing can beat its reliability and performance.
I guess I’ll go with a second hand wired mouse but I don’t like that I’m giving up on bluetooth on Linux. It feels like something which should be a given.
The same Microsoft Mobile Mouse works perfectly with my MacBook Pro 2012 with Fedora on it..
Neither should you give up blutooth on linux. It is microsoft's fault for using proprietary drivers for bluetooth instead of using a card that has open source support (like all the intel wireless cards are top of the line and have great open source support, they could have used that)
Yeah you’re clearly right.
But when I bought it in 2019 during my separation I was short on time and money and I didn’t thought I’d go back to linux after a few years iatus.
Now I’d try to buy a nice second hand linux friendly machine 😇
Yeah none of this is your fault. You bought what you had to and made sense at the time.
Now I’d try to buy a nice second hand linux friendly machine 😇
Do this only if it makes financial sense. Other than the bluetooth issues, your Surface go must be working fine.
Edit : As for your mouse, you can get one with a 2.4GHz wireless dongle/usb receiver. That way you get a wireless mouse without needing to use bluetooth.
Oh I’m clearly not getting rid of my Surface Go for the next five years at least since it’s a perfect little computer to hook up to a screen and easily transport when needed.
I was just saying that now I’d be wiser and do more research about Linux compatibility before buying, even second hand 😇