I made the mistake of believing some dumb guide online that recommended the Razer BlackShark v2 Pro for Linux. Literally the volume control is broken out of the box lol.

I just want a wireless headset. For listening to audio. And a mic. Don’t care for fancy features. Apparently too much to ask for a linux user.

What are y’all using and how is it working for you?

  • craigers@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’ve also been on the search for the perfect headset. I have 3 requirements :

    • I want two independent output devices to show up natively without software, 1 for main output and 1 for voice chat output
    • I want on the fly mixing between the 2 outputs, preferably without additonal software, with a physical knob
    • I want good sidetone, preferably with volume knob

    Checking all these boxes has been near impossible. I currently have an older steel series arctis and it does it. Newer models tho and almost every OEM out there has some shit software that’s windows only. Newer steel series for instance only has the chat mix as a virtual output in software. I know I can achieve similar with Pipewire. The only headset I found that was close was the audeze gaming headset but the sidetone was awful, static and crackle.

    If someone has a rec that can check all those boxes for me let me know.