2. With Virtual Desktop, I can remove my headset during a long flight to grab a snack or use the restroom, then put the headset back on and resume. With Meta's software, taking the headset off requires fully restarting both the sim and headset.
For #2... that sounds like some kind of a software issue that only applies to DCS? Or maybe some obscure issue with the headset software? When I take off the headset in its normal link mode, it will usually pause whatever's going on PC-side, but I can just press the power button and keep it running if that's required. Never had an issue with this, let alone something that requires restarting the whole headset.
2. I never figured it out, since Virtual Desktop fixed a bunch of my other issues too.
I was under the impression that the inconvenience of using a USB cable is compensated by the higher throughput/lower latency of using a direct cable connection vs. a theoretically more limited wireless connection. Does VD simply have a better compression algorithm than Link, or can it actually push through more data?
If you're not capped by bandwidth because you can hardware encode into H265 or AV1, it shouldn't make a difference (besides the bugs and software quirks in both programs)