> I'm sure this post will get a lot of anecdotal replies
I tried Ubuntu last year, briefly. Almost everything worked fine, except ... OK, I'm a trackpad user. I have a couple Apple Magic Trackpads and I prefer to use those over a traditional mouse.
It worked fine for, like, a day? And then out of nowhere it just stopped responding. Reset or reinstalled everything I could think of and it still failed to work. OK, whatever, I bought a traditional bluetooth mouse. Which went to sleep every time it remained still for more than a split second, rendering it basically unusable (not a problem on Windows on the same machine).
Maybe a whiz could have fixed one or both issues, but googling completely failed me. This was pretty basic stuff, surely? And yet I couldn't even get bluetooth mice to work on the most mainstream distro.
(Now, admittedly, the trackpad doesn't work properly out of the box in Windows either, since Apple doesn't provide drivers that work outside of Boot Camp. But at least there are paid drivers that work really well.)
Anecdotally, I have installed Linux on older MacBooks and have had the Magic Mice working fine without any issues.
Anyway, I don't know. People have all sorts of annoying issues with Linux that end up being things that I have never encountered before. I usually use wireless mice with USB transceivers, which have never had problems and I feel like not everyone has such a bad experience (although I know many people who do). Perhaps it's because it's Apple hardware or something, but, admittedly, I have had MacBooks work perfectly on Linux before.
I think that, however, you use Linux on a desktop rather than a laptop, you will find that the hardware experience is quite pleasurable and does not have nearly the same number of issues. Between the two, Linux does manage to shine decently on desktops.
> did anything lead you to use non-bluetooth wireless devices
Not really. I just had them ["non-bluetooth wireless devices"] laying around and I think the non-Bluetooth ones are cheaper.
> I'm wondering if the future of Linux might be abandoning bluetooth entirely.
Abandoning Bluetooth just because your experience was unsatisfactory is not something I agree with at all, sorry. IME, Bluetooth support is completely fine for all the Bluetooth devices I have (like speakers or my cell phone)βand I know others who haven't had any issues either.
Besides, Android uses the Linux kernel. While I don't know if Android uses Bluetooth drivers from the mainline kernel, if it does, that would just make Android's life harder while pointless removing something that usually works fine.
I tried Ubuntu last year, briefly. Almost everything worked fine, except ... OK, I'm a trackpad user. I have a couple Apple Magic Trackpads and I prefer to use those over a traditional mouse.
It worked fine for, like, a day? And then out of nowhere it just stopped responding. Reset or reinstalled everything I could think of and it still failed to work. OK, whatever, I bought a traditional bluetooth mouse. Which went to sleep every time it remained still for more than a split second, rendering it basically unusable (not a problem on Windows on the same machine).
Maybe a whiz could have fixed one or both issues, but googling completely failed me. This was pretty basic stuff, surely? And yet I couldn't even get bluetooth mice to work on the most mainstream distro.
(Now, admittedly, the trackpad doesn't work properly out of the box in Windows either, since Apple doesn't provide drivers that work outside of Boot Camp. But at least there are paid drivers that work really well.)