Comment by dijit
10 months ago
I’d prefer not to have something than to have a bad something.
Yeah, it was annoying when I tried to pair my mouse- but you know… a wired mouse isn’t that big of a deal.
One thing that brings me the most displeasure about internet discourse about operating systems is this idea that they all have to do all the same things.
Thats homogeny by another name; the point of different operating systems is different trade-offs.
Sure, and openbsd has traded off being a desktop OS for not tainting their code with the Bluetooth stack
If we're going to be bad faith discussing: as you seem to be should I remind you that your definition of "being a desktop OS" means running a stack that is primarily useful for phones and laptops- definitively not "Desktop" devices?
I haven't used a Bluetooth device on a desktop or laptop in decades now. Not because I'm using OpenBSD, but because while the promise is there, the reality of using Bluetooth has been so disappointing it's not even worth trying for me anymore. Personally, I'm not opposed to wires, because wires usually mean low latency and no dropped connections; but even when using thinks like wireless mice, using them in propriatary modes was so much better than Bluetooth that after a couple attempts, I stopped trying.
You've clearly had a different experience with Bluetooth, and that's good for you, and neither of our experiences is universal, but I think there are plenty of people willing to use a desktop OS without Bluetooth.
Heck, my new car only uses bluetooth to do phone pairing, then it switches to wifi to talk to phones, because that's clearly better than Bluetooth.