You can go further back. The Old French ostel is from the Latin hospitale, meaning “inn” or “large house”, which is the noun form of the adjective hospitalis, from hospes, meaning “host”.

So the H in hotel is for host, kind of.

(you can go further back into the theoretical language Proto-Indo-European, but there’s no written record of it, so no letter H that we know of)

I just went through this exact thing (even having to install on my work computer). As others said, if you hit cancel like three times it lets you proceed.

Hopefully you didn’t have to then do what I did: spin up a VM so the controller sees the exact bluetooth controller in windows, then go back and pair in Linux. It’s extra work sometimes, but totally worth it to not be using windows.