Bluetooth is equally or more universal than Wi-Fi, though. There aren’t that many connectivity standards that are present in just about every single device under the sun, including stuff like headsets and wireless mice and keyboards. It’s effectively wireless USB (from a user perspective), with all the good and the bad that that brings.
I've never had the left half of my keyboard crap out when I plugged it into a USB port.
I have never gotten both the input, and the output half of a bluetooth headset to work on Windows 10. But that's understandable, since I'm sure Microsoft is strapped for resources, and has more important things to work on - like the bricking the data in My Documents in an OS update.
Even if you don't want the microphone to work, getting sound to come out of a BT headset on Windows 10 is a struggle in itself.
I had trouble with my Bluetooth keyboard as well, both in Linux and Windows 10. Commonly it would disconnect between keydown and keyup, so my editor would be filled with nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, etc.
My bluetooth headphones regularly disconnect from my laptop. Thankfully they have a mini stereo plug. (It's much higher quality audiothat way anyways.)
It Just Worked for me. At some point between Windows 7 and Windows 10 1809, they wrote their own Bluetooth stack. You may either want to install or uninstall your device OEM's drivers. Worst case scenario, something like BlueSoleil [1] may work [2].
Sound in Windows 10 is a joke at the moment. After a reboot it shows my speaker as muted, but play any audio and it happily plays through the speaker. I have to unmute it and mute it again for it to display the correct state.
Just to balance the anecdotes, I've had both input and output from a Bluetooth headset work in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10, OSX Mountain Lion through macOS Mojave, and various Linux distros.
Yes, but the very fact that this needs to be said proves how bad BT is, really. In what other connection type would it ever be stated that somebody actually managed to get it working all the way?
I use my AirPods everyday for input and output on macOS and it sometimes connects, sometimes fails, sometimes I need to reboot the laptop to make it work.
The main problem with AirPods seems to be that they don't make sound because of BT failure. Apple could have missed this detail.
