[rmckayfleming]

Interesting you say that about the Airpods. In my experience I've found that Airpods work extremely well so long as they're only paired with your Apple devices. Once I paired them to my PC I started having issues where they'd drop from my iPhone randomly in the middle of playback. After unpairing them from the PC altogether the problems went away.

[formerly_proven]

That's because you didn't disconnect them (manually) from the PC, both Windows and Linux will grab the airpods when something tries to play audio, even if that "playing audio" is technically silent.