On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 2:52 AM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Anyone using Zoom on Linux? What is your camera/speaker/mic setup? All in one, or separate?
For Zoom I am running Debian on a classic style small tower desktop. The speakers are classic and seemingly ancient analog speakers connected to the motherboard's speaker out jack. The camera is a Logitech C920 webcam (with a built-in microphone). Now, the webcam C920 microphone does work and I have used it but... I have experimented with different microphones and currently by default I use a Blue Microphones Blue Snowflake USB microphone. The key advantage to the Blue Snowflake microphone seems to be that I can position it closer to my face than the webcam, so I gather that I sound better via that microphone than via the C920 webcam microphone. Colin.
Background: ----------- I want to use Zoom on my new CachyOS desktop. Zoom package (from vendor site) installs okay, along with its dependencies. Problem is "mic".
- I have lots of 3.5mm earphones/mic (from old phones) with single combo plug. Problem is, my desktop has separate "mic" jack. Also, some of 3.5mm jacks are broken.
- So, I bought $5 bluetooth speaker from Dollarama, which has speaker and mic. Speaker works with CachyOS, but not mic.
- I have old USB "webcam", that is camera only.
- Maybe, all I need is USB "headset" (headphones + mic)?
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