Bluetooth button is greyed out on bottom right, not clickable. Bluetooth manager on first click just spinner, then, disappears.
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When You go to Settings>Bluetooth is there the Toggle in the Window Bar turned off:
Did You take a Look in the ''Additional Drivers'' Tab in Software & Updates if there are any Drivers offered for Your Bluetooth?
What for a Device You want connect?
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Yes, I see the toggle you show, it is greyed out and I can move it back and forth, but it does nothing.
I have looked in "software and updates" and it does not show any updates available for additional drivers. I came from Win 11 Pro, and I have the Bluetooth driver in a saved folder, that Trigkey (manufacturer of computer) had named "Drivers".
I see the bluetooth driver in that folder (that I saved to a thumbdrive).
I saw in a Reddit post, warning people not to try and install drivers, that Zorin came with any drivers needed. Not sure how true that is.
Wanting to eventually connect a Bluetooth speaker or even my Pixel cell phone, to Bluetooth files from phone to desktop.
There is no truth in that statement. Eh... Reddit.
Zorin OS, like many distributions, includes a large number of common drivers but No Operating System includes every single driver available. Can you imagine that bloat that would cause?
Most of us who used WIndows OS for many years can recall the times we needed to install drivers. In fact, many products are sold with drivers provided that you must install.
Bluetooth falls under Radio - so they should be managed by your network driver.
What is your terminal output for
sudo lshw -C network
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Well, here it depends what Drivers. When the Driver that You have is for Windows, it wouldn't work on Linux. When there is a Linux Driver included, You could theoretically try it.
Another Thing: When You open /etc/bluetooth/main.conf what stands there in the last Row? Stands there AutoEnable=false ? If yes, change it to AutoEnable=true and make a Reboot and test if it works.