Should work with most decent Linux distro (I love that expression, I know exactly what I mean here).
Why, oh why, enabling a networking connection channel by default… Definitely some decisions are not in the hands of the right people… Like if the mass would know what’s best, crazy.
Just put the following line at the end of your /etc/rc.local before the “exit 0”:
echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
if you have such file /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
otherwise put this line:
rfkill block bluetooth
voilà, another part of sanity rightfully claimed back.