A tier list with Debian in every category, no other distros
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I never actually had to deal with Bluetooth issues on Linux so take this with a grain of salt.

BT audio devices generally support multiple different encodings, for example aptX, but they can always fall back to the most basic and most horrible codec that is universally supported on any BT host device. Sounds like that's what's happening. So you might want to look into why your PC isn't using the better options.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, I thought it might be a code issue. It just seemed weird that with other Debian based distros (ubuntu and mint) I have never had this issue. I hope this weekend I get enough free time to investigate further. Thank you for the tip.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Maybe the necessary codecs just aren't installed in Debian by default? Mint and Ubuntu are targeted at laptops for general use, so it makes sense they'd bundle all Bluetooth codecs in a default installation to be ready for most users. But Debian makes fewer assumptions like that, and is often used for servers, so perhaps they didn't want to bloat it with codecs that many installations will never need.

    I'm just guessing here, but that makes sense to me.

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