Sony WH-1000XM4
First couple days I actually got dizzy from the noise canceling, now I can't live without it.
I can't stand wired headphones anymore. They always seem to break somewhere along the cable or connection to the cable, no matter how careful you handle them. I can now also easily listen to music or whatever while doing stuff in the kitchen.
Steel Series Wireless Pros. There's an external DAC via USB and then a 2.4ghz wireless connection to the headset. The DAC also charges the spare battery that comes with the headset so I never have to worry about charging the thing.
The mic is okay. Good enough for work and discord. The sound is great.
Plug and play compatibility with Linux. I haven't tried the Steel Series app yet but I barely used it on Windows anyways.
I use a Plantronics headset. Sound quality is important to me, so I decided to try hardware from a company that specializes in voice comms. I found one on sale for a little more than the cost of two movie tickets.
I’m happy with my choice. My headset is smaller and lighter than any “gaming” headset I’ve ever seen, and strangers regularly compliment my mic clarity when I play team shooters online.
In case you want to try something similar, Jabra is another brand in that space.
People always say to avoid gaming headphones, but gaming headphones are often the only ones made with built-in external mics. If I'm gaming, I need at least a decent mic. Internal headphone mics aint going to cut it, they are omnidirectional and have terrible quality.
Sure you can get the perfect set up with some high quality headphones and a separate recording setup but there are issues with this. Boom mics are the highest quality of course but they take up a ton of space and are unsightly. You need to get the perfect length of boom and hold it close to your face at all times... it's necessary for content creation but not practical for everyday playing. There are "mod mics" you can attach to the side of your headphones, but there is only one company that makes them (Antlion) and both of their products in this line are terrible. I've had nothing but issues and they are not cheap.
So in the end I settled for the Sony Inzone headphones and they are fine. They are ugly as sin and the sound quality is obviously lacking, but it's way better than most in the category. You can connect via Bluetooth but the dongle works OOTB on Linux. The headphones are poor without a firmware update, and that needs a Windows VM and it's a bit tricky. The update will disable the USB device at points, so you will need to re-enable the USB passthrough when this happens. Pretty easy to do with GNOME-Boxes.
Has there been any news what the long term plans of Gamescope (Steam Deck Compositor)? They are building pretty heavily on top of xwayland, so wondering if they’ll make the switch to native Wayland game sessions at some point…
I am aware it’s Wayland based. But it’s using xwayland for literally everything by design at the moment. There is not even a way to run Wayland native applications currently.
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