> Although most linux distros still have quirks (bluetooth issues, sleep/resume issues, no hibernation out of the box, high battery consumption, among a plethora a of other papercuts) I am sticking with it mainly because windows ux just sux so much.
Heh, as usual, YMMV. My bluetooth headphones actually work reliably on Linux (with LDAC support!), while on Windows I usually have to fiddle with them for a few minutes until they start working. For some reason, whenever I reconnect them, Windows thinks it's a different "sound card". I sometimes can't control the volume in video calls, and they start at the max which is painful.
Battery is much better on Linux (there not being anything doing god knows what with the cpu for no reason must help), and it actually stays asleep when I close it. Hibernation also worked well whenever I tried it, but I don't really have any use for it, so I can't tell for sure it's actually fully reliable.
I didn't jump through any hoops for this other than an almost standard Arch install ("almost" because I use a fully encrypted drive with TPM+PIN unlock and secure boot with my own keys).
On linux, I have to switch my headphone mode when going in/out of web calls. It doesn't auto-switch to mono-mode when the mic is in use by an application.
IME this isn't very reliable on Windows, either. It's likely to switch to conference mode when starting a call, but chances are it won't move out of it at the end. Linux tends to do the same. I chalk this up to crappy conferencing apps which don't seem to release the mic when the call is done. I've seen Teams show up multiple times in volume mixers and webex lose the mic in the middle of a call for no reason (also happens with a traditional wired headset) so I tend to not blame the OSs for this particular problem.
In my specific case this isn't much of an issue most of the time because I've chosen my headphones for their music playback quality and didn't care about mic performance, which, it turns out, is pretty crappy. So, I just put on my wired Jabra headset for calls, which doesn't lag and works mostly OK (until it doesn't: sometimes windows stops getting anything on the mic for some reason – never had the problem in Linux).
Heh, as usual, YMMV. My bluetooth headphones actually work reliably on Linux (with LDAC support!), while on Windows I usually have to fiddle with them for a few minutes until they start working. For some reason, whenever I reconnect them, Windows thinks it's a different "sound card". I sometimes can't control the volume in video calls, and they start at the max which is painful.
Battery is much better on Linux (there not being anything doing god knows what with the cpu for no reason must help), and it actually stays asleep when I close it. Hibernation also worked well whenever I tried it, but I don't really have any use for it, so I can't tell for sure it's actually fully reliable.
I didn't jump through any hoops for this other than an almost standard Arch install ("almost" because I use a fully encrypted drive with TPM+PIN unlock and secure boot with my own keys).