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/
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