Last week I converted myself to wireless earphones.
I don’t consider myself an audiophile, I don’t have any deep knowledge of music but I kinda enjoy listening to it.
Because of this I have had a few decent pairs of headphones, earphones and monitor speakers in my life; they all shared a thing: cables.
Last week I pulled the trigger and bought myself my very first pair of wireless earphones: Sony WF-1000XM4.
The main idea was to use them with the phone and maybe with work issued laptop which is running Windows, I did not even thought they would work with my Linux laptop.
But to my biggest surprise they just work on Linux, no fiddling with bluetoothhcl or btmgmt; just enable BT in Gnome settings, long press for 5 seconds on both earphones to activate pairing mode and wait for them to pair.

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What’s even better is that from Gnome audio settings it is also possible to select the codec, to my even further surprise LDAC is also supported.

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Gestures also work, play, pause, next song, deactivate noise canceling, etc.
2021 really is the year of Linux desktop.