They wanted the mouse to have a name like "Microsoft® Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000" but they accidentally used the wrong encoding and the name was invalid. Because they already made thousands of devices without properly testing them, the "obvious" solution was to patch the Bluetooth stack on every single computer in the world to fix this issue. It's the only Bluetooth device released in computer history that requires this.

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[–] 20 points 1 year ago*

Out of all major operating systems, somehow Windows handles Bluetooth the absolute worst. From my experience:

Android: 99.9% reliability

iOS: 99.9% reliability but a pain to toggle

MacOS: Not really sure but probably near iOS/Android

Ubuntu: 97% reliability

Random Linux distro: 20% reliability

Windows: 5% reliability. Yes, that's really my success rate at connecting Bluetooth headphones to Windows 11.

It's atrocious that Microsoft focuses more on ads in the OS rather than fixing their Bluetooth.

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