@qqmrichter Very strange.
The only thing I can think of right now, is whether the headset is "selected" as an audio output when it first connects.
PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol or pavucontrol-qt; both of these work with pipewire too) might need to be told to switch applications to that audio "sink". So it's connected, but for whatever reason, isn't chosen as being a default device.
It does sound like you're hitting an edge case… and it'd be worth capturing as much detail as you can and submitting a bug report to the particular distribution you're using.
@stuartl @qqmrichter I don't get the tone towards free/libre software devs - they don't get to choose the standards corporates present to users as a fait accompli.
Bluetooth and its Linux stack seems bad enough that a distro (Hyperbola) announced they have ripped it out - millions of lines of code, apparently.
BTW, Hyperbola sounds very off-beat. They don't want PHP or Rust or Chromium, they even want to rebuild on top of the OpenBSD kernel.
