Probably something accessing your microphone and making the headset switch to HSP/HFP. Correcting the microphone input usually allows me to switch back to A2DP, but not always unfortunately. I’ve had it happen a few times at random too (some games, a chat program). I still don’t know what causes my issues exactly, but after a few updates and editing my Pipewire config it doesn’t seem to happen as much anymore.
I dug in deep and I think completely removing the HSP and HFP roles from the Wireplumber config file solved the issue. I don’t know what to do if you’re on Pulseaudio, and there’s no GUI setting to do this, but it may help you on your quest to figure this stuff out.
Likely what is happening is that the game is probing audio devices and triggering the mic on your headphones to get picked up. This switches them into the “headset” profile which has awful audio quality. I don’t know why the UI isn’t showing that, make sure you are checking while the game is running and the audio sounds bad.
If you want your headphone mic to work there is not much choice. There isn’t a standard bluetooth profile with good audio and mic. If you never want to use your headphone mic you can probably configure some advanced settings in your audio manager (probably PulseAudio or PipeWire).
i work in IT, so linux at work was an immediate hit for me.
It sounds weird, but doing it stuff on linux just feels kinda natural.
because of work i tried to use it at home (asside from tinkering) but it didn’t work out nearly as well for a long time.
the lack of game support meant i was mostly on windows.
but thanks to minecraft and valves linux version of dota and csgo, it evened out.
and now thanks to proton im almost 99% on linux.
i like linux for its customizability,
its centralized & unintrusive updates,
its advanced features (mdadm, btrfs, powerfull scripting), and because of the controll i have over my system.
i dislike windows because of the design since win8,
the lack of controll( bloatware just appears on my start menu, onedrive, cortana, recall),
intrusive updates (installing updates on shutdown and reboot and “all your files are encrypted exactly where you left them”),
constantly pestering me about getting the latest release,
reseting my configurations on updates,
and the ever changing labyrinth of menus when i need to fix / change something
Vista sucked so bad. I got a nice new laptop and it was constant pain. One of the real breaking points was that it would refuse to let me modify or delete some files even as superuser. If I recall correctly they weren’t even system files, maybe a separate partition or something.
I tried installing XP but there was some sort of driver issue with my CD drive. It would start installing fine, but then once it tried to reboot off of the HDD to finish the installation it couldn’t find the installation CD to finish copying things, so the install just crashed half-way done.
I installed Ubuntu on a partition, dual booted for a while. After a few months I realized that I never even used the Windows partition anymore so I wiped it.
Two things coming together finalized my choice to leave Windows:
the ability to play almost every game on Linux thanks to Valve
the fact that you couldn’t create a local account during a Windows install (back when I discovered this you still technically could with some workarounds; I don’t know if you still can but you shouldn’t have to put in any effort IMHO)
Out of all the horrible shit Windows 10 did, making my username firsl (if my name was first last) was one of the most frustrating. I literally reinstalled because I couldn’t fully change it everywhere.
It sounds like you already have this problem solved, but just in case:
Back when I still used Windows, the workaround was just to make sure you didn’t have a network connection when installing the OS. This could be done by unplugging the NIC during install on a physical system or by deleting the NIC in a VM (or other ways, obviously, but these were the simplest). It still took some convincing, but then you could make your username whatever you wanted.
I don’t know if that still works - it’s been years - but if you still use Windows and still have that problem, this might be worth a try.
i was a starving college student with $20 to my name and a dead windows me desktop computer that had an entire semester’s worth of school work trapped inside of it.
i had read about linux before and saw that i could buy a couple of mandrake cd’s from a magazine at circuit city for $5 or borrow $169 from someone to buy a windows xp installation disk.
i bought the magazine; installed linux; and taught myself (with google’s help) how to copy all of my school work onto a usb drive. i finished those papers using the school’s computer laboratories; and then kept on using the linux installation from then on in 2002 until now.
At first I was tipping my toes in Ubuntu but kept coming back to Windows as I kept running into stability issues. Googling my issues very frequently kept sending me to the Arch wiki, and I thought “well if they have so much covered, why not use this distro instead”. That and 196 subreddit (rule) made me try Arch, and my experience was noticeably better. Barely any crashes and improving Proton compatibility made me use it more and more. I kept a windows install for VR and anti-cheat enabled games until late 2023.
During my transition period (both in Linux and gender lol) between 2021 and now, I kept getting comments “why are you making your life harder with Linux, just use Windows where everything works”. Well, nowadays tables have turned and now I get to say “weird it works for me on Linux”. Except VR, it’s still a mixed experience.
Honestly? I played around with Linux for a long time inside of VM, but then I moved to a new house and got into “a new life” mood. And then I just couldn’t look back on Windows with anything but disgust.
Honestly? I played around with Linux for a long time inside of VM, but then I moved to a new house and got into “a new life” mood. And then I just couldn’t look back on Windows with anything but disgust.
I had a two laptop: one main for gaming and a shitty computer for school. I had to code on python. It was easier to setup on linux. I liked KDE. I installed kubuntu on the laptop for school.
As soon as I stopped playing videogames on my main computer I went for linux definitely
I’m still on Windows 10, mainly for gaming. I probably won’t switch (to PopOS or Mint) until Win10 EOL happens, primarily for gaming-related reasons.
I have an Nvidia card and can’t afford to get an AMD, and most of my games are not on Steam (I really like GOG), so I’m hoping by that point Nvidia compatibility will have improved enough compared to last time I tried switching.
I mean FFS I went to PopOS like a year ago and couldn’t even get Dragon Age: Origins to run, even through Lutris. It made me sad. :(
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