On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 10:23:28AM +0200, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 08:29:09PM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: >> Is there anything I need to look out for when searching for a pair of >> US $20 USB connected computer speakers. This is for background audio, >> not recording nor monitoring. I'm mostly interested to know how >> careful I need to be to make sure USB speakers work on Linux. > > Almost all USB audio interfaces are class compliant these days, which > means they should work on most operating systems with the standard > drivers. As Jeremy says, class-compliant USB speakers should work fine with Linux. Regardless of operating system, one disadvantage of USB speakers compared to conventional speakers (ones with analog audio inputs, e.g. via a 3.5mm jack from a soundcard) is that the former might be vulnerable to BadUSB whereas the latter would not be: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/ -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
