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One of the challenges when it comes to switching gaming setups from the Windows world to Linux, is fully-featured hardware support.

The Xbox Wireless Headset + official dongle does a decent job with a lot of bang for the buck. However, It's not (yet) supported by XONE or any other driver. I can connect it via bluetooth, but then it just sounds dull - no surprise!

That's why I'm now looking for a new headset which is approved by the community. It must offer decent (surround-)sound in games.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Audio isn't always straightforward on Linux.

[–] bgtlover@linuxrocks.online 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@ObviouslyNotBanana @grue it's much better now than when people were using jack incantations and trying to figure a whole host of stuff out, which in most cases was hardware specific and very esoteric, needless to speak of people chasing lowlatency setups, in so many weird directions that afew people actually came up with kernel patches to apparently make the whole thing have 0 xruns. Yeah, absolutely weird, better that this doesn't happen anymore hopefully

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yep. It is much better now.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, but even still the weirdness is more about getting audio routed to and from the right devices, not about getting the devices themselves to work correctly in terms of drivers.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Tell that to my USB sound card lol

But yeah, most of the time it's very fixable.