Unusability of bluetooth is one of the worst plagues in Ubuntu

[Thomas Ward]

Um... lemme comment in a few things I see wrong in your email.

Firstly, bug importance isn't "set" based on yours or mine's opinion only, there's certain things that importance is influenced by. (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance).

Secondly, the compatability of Bluetooth cards and transceivers with the kernel is an issue.  We have the same problem with some wifi cards and even sound cards.  Ultimately if there are no Linux drivers for a certain Bluetooth card then either drivers need to be written or the manufacturer has to have Linux drivers made for that.

Thirdly, your attitude of "anger" at this issue, Matteo, by swearing and such in your message, gets us nowhere.  As these lists are public, and many many people are on these lists, getting angry on the QA mailing lists doesn't help.

Ultimately, yes, I think your points that some features don't work is why Ubuntu hasn't gained a huge amount of use.  In the long run these things tend to get fixed though.  (As well, we have to typically wait for drivers to be written by either the open source community or the hardware manufacturer before we can truly "fix" all hardware problems where cards don't work in Linux, though, and creating drivers takes a while and a lot of effort so for that one you need a ton of patience.)

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Thomas

*Sent from my phone.  Please excuse any typos, as they are likely to happen by accident.*

> On Dec 26, 2013, at 6:25, Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys please, one of the greatest annoyances in Ubuntu is that connecting bluetooth devices (e.g. mobile phones) and exchange files with them is almost impossible, and it has become worse and worse as the latest releases of ubuntu have been released.
> 
> Just search launchpad for bugs with the "bluetooth" keyword (don't forget to include non-confirmed bugs). I myself have reported quite a few of them, none of which has even got the "importance" decided.
> Oh wait, ONE, which is now 3 years old, has got the wrong "low" value for importance (while it is at least major).
> 
> Things like these are the reason why so many people still prefer to pay for shitty operating systems like Windows rather than using Ubuntu for free.
> 
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