# garming on linux in 2014 is still poor in which you try for two days to get a stereo headset mic to work in left 4 dead 2 realize there are probably a dozen or more mutually interrelated (yet competing) variables to endlessly tweak / experiment with get so far as to successfully hear your own voice in steam voice settings but whenever you load l4d2 there's alternatively no in-garme sound whatsoever andor no mic // video here luckily the easiest answer to such teeth grinding frustration regarding a perceived lack of even basic functionality is also the most immediately relieving psychologically **+** sudo apt-get purge steam **+** rm -rf ~ /.local/share/steam // republic of bob