No.

Do not buy steelseries. Ever.

I bought one of their controllers, once. I really liked it, but it broke. When I RMAd it, they didn't have replacements in stock. I said fine, I'll wait.

They said no. Here's a 60 euro certificate to buy something else you don't want. Also it expires in 30 days, just to make sure you can't wait for something you actually want to buy, like the controller, to be in stock.

All complaints ignored.

They effectively stole my controller with zero compensation. Their warranty policies are literally just "fuck you, eat shit". Everything else I've ever used from them has only barely outlasted the warranty.

I recommend Epos headsets. My GSP 370 have now lasted four times longer than the Steelseries Arctis I had before. The battery is finally dying, but you can literally undo just 3 screws and replace it.

When new, the battery lasts 100 hours per charge, and when you finally do get the low battery warning, you don't need the swappable battery bullshit because "low battery" still means they'll last two more days. Which means you can just ignore the infrequent low battery sound until you're done gaming, and then plug them in.

They function flawlessly on linux, and have excellent audio quality for both input and output. Since, you know, they're by Sennheiser, not a "gaming" peripheral company.

They didn't work out of the box instantly, the sound was pretty "crunchy".

But, all i had to do was update firmware and set the bandwidth to the fanciest it would go then use third party equalizer to balance it out. (You CAN use the propietary one, but it didn't seem to really offer me anything third party didn't. Third party changes the driver too so you don't have to have a dumb program sitting open in the background like the proprietary requires)

If i was going to spend this money again I'd of bought the Maxwell from Audeze instead. My head is fat and the nova pro barely fits at max space.

Also, get cloth earcups to replace the full rubber grippy ones. Way less sweaty and the sound is more " open" imo. Although audiophiles would be correct that it's less sealed so therefore less noise canceling and immersive.

Edit: Sidenote. All headsets should have a removable battery as easy as this. Its easily the best feature on this headset.

Everything I have bought from steelseries (two headsets, a keyboard and a mouse, all mostly the top of the line models) have broken within some years through normal use.

I have one. Works perfectly out of the box. It connects through usb to your pc and uses a 2.4ghz band for the wireless audio. It's expensive but the best headset I have ever had.

Edit: don't know about the additional sound system, I can imagine that would be windows only. Not something I miss anyway. Noise cancelling works fine.

I had to do some configuration with pulse audio on fedora to get these at 24 bit, otherwise they'll work out of the box. I haven't tried running their app in wine or anything, but it works as an audio device out of the box

Ive been using the Arctis 1 Wireless for almost 3 years now and its so fucking good, still going strong and not breaking down in the slightest. Easily the best headset Ive ever owned.

I have them and they work well enough for my uses (gaming and video watching) I’m dual booting and honestly found the windows software trying to give you the 7.1/virtual surround so irritating I just uninstalled it.

@Sunny
I dont, but I have its predecessor on a windows machine. As much as I love the product, I wouldn't buy from SteelSeries again.
Their firmware has so many annoying edge cases, and there are improvements to be made on the physical product too.
Instead of polishing all of the known issues that were raised in the community and releasing a new version, they made a completely new product line, with gimmick features no one asked for. From what I heard the issues are still there. Really annoying

I use these on debian work just fine note that the chat/game audio wheel doesn't work on Linux but they sound fine and do everything I need.

I had a set of steelseries arctis 9x (I think) and the Bluetooth module was complete garbage. I spent a lot of money on them because they had great reviews, but they had poor noise isolation and couldn't stay connected to an audio source to save their lives. I also recall having difficulties pairing them with Fedora, but couldn't give you specifics anymore.

I got a pair of soundcore i20q's and put the steel series in the trash where they belonged.

I know we're in the Linux Gaming community but I have this exact headset and they're amazing on Windows and Mac. I have a black and my wife has a white pair. Mine are about 2 years old, still going strong.

Only weird complaint is that the cover for the battery in the headset is difficult to remove without nails. The kind of thing that would be easy with a flathead screwdriver but difficult with your thumb. The battery still lasts forever though.

Ive3 used a bunch of steelseries stuff but much like razer they kinda became shittier as they got more popular. I've used 3 of their mice and 2 headsets, a friend went through 3 headsets. They all develop weird problems within a year. Meanwhile I just swapped the pads on my old sennheiser 500 something and it sounds excellent. wired but sounds great, essentially no latency vs any wireless method, and works with linux as long as the mobo sound card works.

Only issue I had with the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7, OS wise, was that I had to use their app in Windows to remove the legally-required volume limitting (Tow-boat I was on was constantly LOUD) ... but in my book, its a plus it had that ability, and I only had to do it the once. Never touched their app again.

Creative HyperX H5s are better.