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Bluetooth dongle recommendation
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Actually I haven't been able to get Bluetooth 5 dongles to work on Linux. I only have success with Bluetooth 4 dongles.
What are you going to use the Bluetooth dongle for? Connecting Bluetooth peripherals, or headphones? If it's exclusively for Bluetooth headphones, using a Bluetooth audio dongle (which is detected as a USB audio device in Linux) works much better than using the Bluetooth 4.0 usb dongle for audio purpose because you can use low latency aptx codex and Bluetooth 5 without messing with random drivers from some github repos
The Asus BT500 dongle works quite well in my experience as long as you're running a kernel from the last 1-2 years, it's only BT 5.0 though.
This is super helpful, thanks!
Neat, didn't think of that!
I would like to connect Bluetooth headphones and a DualShock controller to my PC for gaming purposes. Cables are annoying
I'm pretty sure you can use aptx codecs using a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle and pipewire/bluez5. Just be aware when using them for gaming, if the game is cpu-bound and starved the system out of CPU time, the bluetooth audio might start to stutter. A Bluetooth audio dongle never stutter because they have their own independent Bluetooth stack, but they're about 10x more expensive than a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle (~$50) and can only be used for audio only.
Would this give latency comparable to wired?
No but it's way better than the standard SBC codex. The latency is supposed to be ~32ms: https://soundsightheadphones.com/guides/bluetooth-5-0-codecs-and-other-bluetooth-formats/
Thanks !