What?

It's pretty much the same. Click the speaker icon the menubar, bluetooth is one of the options, third click to choose a connection.

There are plenty of excellent extensions if you want something different. I use dash-to-panel to combine the system tray in my dock and not have a pointless menu bar.

> zero windows

Are you not calling the MacOS sound-panel a window? It's the same type of panel you use in Gnome!

I use both everyday and it's MacOS that's buggy, inconsistent and hobbled:

- my speaker doesn't appear in the MacOS sound panel but does appear in the bluetooth section of settings so I have to go there to connect and it works as a speaker. MacOS is literally worse than Gnome at this specific task!

- I also can't use my Mac as a bluetooth speaker but I can use Linux as one. Pretty lame.

> Are you not calling the MacOS sound-panel a window?

When I click on the bluetooth icon in the top bar of MacOS it pops out a little list, and each bluetooth option has a toggle next to it where I can click to toggle.

In my version of Gnome, I click at the top bar to open a menu, then click Bluetooth On (or the name of the currently connected device). That pops out a sub-menu, in which I click Bluetooth Settings. That opens a window that lists the paired Bluetooth devices. I can click on one, which opens another window over the top, where I can click a toggle to connect it. I stare at it waiting for it to connect (it's slightly less reliable at this than the Mac[0], so it's worth watching it) and then I click again to close that window, and finally click again to close the window underneath. Actually 7 clicks!

[0] It could be the Mac is no better at this, but the UI interruption is basically zero to check and re-click, so it at least feels better, and I can do other stuff between checking.