u/Eiraku

Win 4 + Bazzite = Expanded BT Codecs? YES!
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Win 4 + Bazzite = Expanded BT Codecs? YES!

Something that I've never seen mentioned by anybody when talking about Bazzite. Mostly people just about how much lighter Bazzite is vs Windows and how everything just "works" vs something like CachyOS...

But yeah, apparently Bazzite gives you a bunch of Low Latency BT Codecs that Windows doesn't have - including what I consider the Holy Grail: Bluetooth LE Audio (LC3) - as shown here connected to my Samsung Buds 3 Pro (through HSP not A2DP but it works the same).

Which is amazing as while the Win 4 2023 7840U THEORETICALLY supports BT5.2 and LC3, none of the drivers available online could enable it for me in Windows (a dongle would work... but yeah).

AptX LL also works out of the box in Bazzite with my Creative JAM V2s, vs having to buy a 3rd party driver (or a dongle) to enable it in Windows.

And there's also the ever useful SBC-XQ (aka the poor man's AptX) for any headphones that don't support either of the above - which is also kinda hard to enable for Windows.

You just need to install Pwvucontrol via Baazar in Desktop Mode to allow for manual changes in the codec used... and your choice should stick in Game Mode and persist across reboots.

The more brilliant part however, that this (probably) means that, given the right hardware, Bazzite should enable the codecs for ANY x86 handheld with compatible hardware. Also, this probably means that you can do the same with CachyOS too, given the right components.

OOOOOORRRR you could just run a wired headset and save yourself all this trouble... but what's the fun in that lol.

u/Eiraku — 4 days ago
▲ 44 r/gpdwin

My PSV Clone Brothers

My Ayn Odin 2 Mini Pro vs my Win 4.

Yes the Win 4 is ginormous, but it's the only real way to even run Stalker 2 on the move.

The 8G2 + Winlator on the O2MP can run a surprising amount of games, but it really can't beat the raw power of even 'just' the 7840u (or 6800u for that matter)... especially with 32GB.

Battery life the O2MP is 'barely' better, but that MiniLED screen is definitely bright.

Can't keep both though, so the O2MP is going away. A bit hard to sell these days sadly, with the Thor and the RP6 around.

u/Eiraku — 11 days ago