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The XFCE menu is what I am using to enable or disable bluetooth. When the menu is disabled and the machine restarted the menu is enabled after restart

I have pipewire setup up but still have pulseaudio components. ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.22.0-5+deb12u1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package) rc pulseaudio 16.1+dfsg1-2+b1...

The issue is not knowing if bluetooth is running. It is can I maintain the same state when I disable bluetooth then reboot.

When the bluetooth icon is disabled that means no bluetooth communications even though the service is still running. Correct? I am looking to maintain no bluetooth communications after the system is rebooted. currently is I disable the icon and reboot it on startup the icon shows bluetooth...

When I disable Bluetooth through the GUI and get the icon (shown above) with an x in the bluetooth, does that mean bluetooth is not disabled? Because when I run the command sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service i see bluetooth active and running.

I am using Debian Bookworm with XFCE and when I start up, bluetooth is active every time. Can bluetooth be disabled via the panel automatically on start up ?

When you a local user looks at the WIFI information the password for WIFI can be viewed or changed without a administrator password being entered. NetworkManager app 1.3 allows anyone that has local access to the computer to view, change the WIFI password with out a administrator password prompt...

What is the advantage of having 2 Init systems ? Mx-linux has by default sysvinit but can boot from the grub into systemD. why would a distro need this ability ?