[bigallen]

Wait, are you saying you just trade the wireless functionality from the built in Bluetooth to an external Bluetooth dongle?

[dontlaugh]

The dongle is definitely not using Bluetooth. Wireless peripherals with USB dongles generally have their own custom radio protocol, for better or worse.

[retrac]

Before later revisions of Bluetooth with ultra-low-power modes, a mouse using Bluetooth was considerably more power-hungry than dedicated radio interfaces -- short battery life.

[nightowl_games]

Usually it's for better

[Xaiph_Rahci]

A physical OEM USB dongle on PC side, whether Bluetooth or not, and an On/Off switch on the peripheral side would have certainly prevented the issue in discussion.

[beAbU]

Surely if you disable bluetooth in the OS it'll disable any bluetooth dongles as well?

[nicolaslem]

Proprietary wireless dongles for keyboards and mice are often not Bluetooth.