> The most painful problem with the machine is that WiFi is entirely unusable if you are simultaneously using bluetooth.
Wouldn't that be a problem of Windows itself? For me bluetooth has been a mess on every Windows machine. It's a miracle if something works and to get something working you even need to buy a dongle with a specific chip on it...
When you have good Bluetooth hardware, modern Windows versions seem to be pretty good with Bluetooth. Playing back on Bluetooth speakers or having Bluetooth mice or game pads seems to work pretty well. The most frustrating part is the issue of switching between Headset Profile and A2DP with bluetooth headsets. That always seems like a nightmare and prone to lots of frustrations.
I've definitely experienced what a bad Bluetooth adapter on Windows is like though. Things just failing to pair for no apparent reason, things randomly disconnecting, the thing seeming to forget all previous pairings, etc. I think that's usually been due to poor drivers. Earlier versions of Windows didn't really have much Bluetooth support out of the box, most of the stuff seemed to be implemented by each hardware vendor at the time. Compatibility issues were so common. This has largely seemed to go away especially when using modern Intel WiFi/BT chips and modern Windows.
I had one Asus laptop that required me to occasionally toggle Bluetooth off and on again to reconnect my mouse. The rest of my laptops and my desktop's USB Bluetooth dongle have worked without issue for my mice and headphones. I don't think it's a common issue, but I'm just one person!
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi work together with no issues on my ThinkPad X1 Extreme. I'm using Wi-Fi on 5GHz. Haven't tried it on 2.4GHz; I imagine there could be more potential for interference there.
I mostly use Bluetooth with Apple AirPods. I tried running Ubuntu on the ThinkPad but it had the same problem I've seen on other Linux machines: the AirPods would only pair as headphones, not as a full headset with microphone.
I like Windows better anyway on the hardware, especially its support for different scaling factors on multiple monitors. So I run Linux in a VM or use WSL2.
I have, because I’m really stupid and bought a ax200 card from Amazon that apparently didn’t have BT on it... bought another one and it works totally fine.
Wouldn't that be a problem of Windows itself? For me bluetooth has been a mess on every Windows machine. It's a miracle if something works and to get something working you even need to buy a dongle with a specific chip on it...