cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
Audio is the only thing holding me back. I have a pair of lucidsound LS51 headphones for gaming that I can’t get working wirelessly. While the have Bluetooth, it’s shit for latency and not workable for gaming.
That’s it. Everything else works but until I buy replacement headset or find a way to convince Linux to pick em up and work it’s still windows for me
Any good wireless headsets that folks know of that work Linux side?
Is it possible that you are using a Linux distribution that still has Pulseaudio instead of Pipewire? That would cause unnecessarily high latency in the audio stack on the machine.
Do you happen to use a distro that excludes patent encumbered codecs? For example, if you were on Fedora, you might want to install
pipewire-codec-aptxfrom RPMFusion?I’ve tried bazzite first but then ran into issues since that’s immutable and then nobara(42).
I tried to LLM my way thru a custom driver and made little progress. My headphone doesn’t have aptx support, would that codec do anything then?
My XM3s work flawlessly. The mics suck, but that’s the headset’s problem lol.
I have a lot of Bluetooth devices, and I haven’t found one that has any issues at all, including controllers.
Bluetooth works, but latency is high for gaming.
It’s the 2.4 wireless connection I’m stuck trying to get working (or find another wireless headset - not using Bluetooth) that works.
I don’t notice any latency with my Sony XM5’s using the LDAC codec. Sometimes they don’t switch back from headset mode after taking a call, which is a bit annoying, but just one click away in the volume panel.
I don’t have XM5s, and am pretty sure the LS50X doesn’t support LDAC, but I am glad it works well for you.
They’re nice headphones but no boom mic would be a deal-breaker for me.
It seems like your LS50X neither support LDAC nor aptX for delivering low latency audio. That’s an absolute dealbreaker, sadly. :(
Does the bluetooth work in windows without latency? I have latency on both my bluetooth audio devices regardless of what OS/device I’m playing audio from. Phone, PC, Laptop, doesn’t matter. I don’t bother with it anymore where that is an issue.
No, it’s laggy there too, but I use the dongle with the 2.4ghz in windows and it’s great there.
I had to do something very basic recently which was to make my single-channel microphone ‘mono’ in the sense that it was present in both ears. This involved a lot of googling and command line action. I don’t mind that in principal but I can’t say I learned anything. I don’t remember what I ran, why I chose the option I did to make it work…and I know when I have to do it again it will be arcane again. If Linux is ever going to be truly mass market and bridge the uncanny valley of weird little use cases between pro users and Facebook grandmas, this sort of thing needs to be more readily available in settings applets. Call me a normie but there it is.