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This is mostly a myth with modern controllers. Either your pc Bluetooth is very old, or you are using very old controllers. Modern bluetooth controllers connected to modern bluetooth receivers do not give any noticeable latency.
No, I am not. I have used the current Xbox controllers on both windows and Linux on multiple modern systems with Bluetooth and they're completely unusable without the dongle every single time. I've never had anyone not notice.
The latency is obscene.
Out of curiosity, are you using WiFi, and what frequency?
A little while ago I had an issue where my controller would interfere with my 2.4GHz WiFi and make my computer basically unusable for online games. This isn't really the same situation but I imagine something similar could happen in reverse.
Otherwise I've never had any issues with controller latency though. It's weird that it's so significant for you.
Multiple physical locations and network setups. It doesn't matter.
Bluetooth is substantially higher latency and lower stability than the proprietary adapter. It's fine if you can tolerate it, but the performance isn't the same.