Is it my bluetooth adapter or it's A2DP support in both Windows and Linux is so glitchy?

Sometimes it just stops playing music until the connection dies(in Windows) or I disconnect headphones by hand(in Linux).

Nothing interesting in dmesg.
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Seeing how it's a cross platform thing, I'm guessing your bluetooth adapter is just bad. Or maybe the manufacturer never really bothered to make decent drivers for it. Hence, on Windows you only got primitive, basic, unfinished, buggy drivers made by manufacturer. While on Linux, you've got whatever open-source driver the community managed to string together.

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@alyx I'm using Microsoft drivers tbh. Vendor didn't made drivers and suggests using these included with Windows itself.

Maybe it's bad. I just found it lying in a shelf, don't remember why I have it.

@a1batross
That's kinda strange, since Microsoft usually takes the drivers from manufacturers to deliver them via Windows Update. They're not exactly in the business of making drivers for every piece of hardware out there.
I'm guessing in this case, you're basically using a generic bluetooth driver. And if you don't know why that's a bad idea, try using a generic driver for your GPU. These are generally the bottom of the barrel when it comes to drivers.

P.S. oof...

@alyx well, maybe they DID a driver but sent it to Microsoft, so it's included there now. I don't really understand how it works.

But it uses integrated Bluetooth stack which well, doesn't look that bad compared to shady vendor ones. At least, it is a requirement for Windows Mixed Reality controllers...
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