I'm new to Linux trying Zorin due to disgust with Windows/Microsoft. My wife, equally disgusted bought a Mac. Anyway...
I am navigating all right although I'm stuck with one item now. I wish to use a BT headphone. I put it into pairing mode, the device appears in the Bluetooth list box in Zorin with the note that it's not setup to the right of the device name (Bose headphones).
I click on the device, the device winks then goes back to it saying it's not setup. What sort of setup is needed by Zorin and where do I access it from? I figured clicking on the device entry would open some sort of activate routine but it doesn't.
I'm running in try mode from a USB stick. My version is current release core.
BTW, no matter how my Zorin try works out, I think I'm switching to Brave.
Running in try mode, is likely why its not working. To provide context, while I am on an older version of Zorin OS, bluetooth handling is done, more or less the same.
I recently bought a pair of Anker Soundcore Sport X20's. When I turned on my computer's bluetooth, it picked up the Soundcore, but it listed them twice, presumably, for each ear piece. 1-listed would not connect, but the other did connect.
Bose is a name brand, you'd think the bluetooth settings module would pickup your bose headphones quite easily. I think it would help if you took screenshots of the app showing your headphones, as well as the error message you are seeing.
Hopefully, we can help sort this issue out for you. But, that may require you, to bare metal install, of OS 18.
For me, it was exactly the opposite. My Bose Bluetooth headphones work in Live USB mode of Zorin and Mint, but only sporadically on the actual Linux Mint 22.1 installation.
I am in try mode running from a USB memory stick. I'm baffled as to what 'setting up' a BT device even means. It seems to me that once it appears in the BT list, clicking on it would connect but it's not.
I am on an HP Omen desktop that has a sketchy history with BT. That, I suppose, could be it. I haven't a clue what a bare metal install. Please explain. I'm running from the ISO on that stick.
If you install and find BT is bad, also check if wifi works OK. If not you could cover both with an inexpensive (linux compatible) BT+wifi combination dongle.
