Plug the Nova 7’s USB-C dongle into a Linux machine and the headset works as a sound card: audio out, microphone in. What it does not give you is anything SteelSeries GG handles on Windows — sidetone, the volume limiter, the auto-off timer, the battery level, the equalizer, and a ChatMix dial that actually balances something.
Arctis Sound Manager (ASM) speaks the headset’s own USB protocol and brings those back, natively — no Wine, no vendor driver.
Headset and microphone
Audio, on PipeWire
The PlayStation edition Nova 7P has no ChatMix dial and no sidetone; ASM shows the settings that model actually has and nothing else.
The whole family is recognised, first and second generation:
The two generations report the battery differently — in steps on the first, in percent on the second — and ASM reads each the way its firmware sends it. The supported devices page lists every USB ID; to check yours:
lsusb | grep 1038
curl -fsSL https://loteran.github.io/Arctis-Sound-Manager/install.sh | bash
The script detects your distribution and installs the native package — Arch, Fedora, Nobara, Debian, Ubuntu, Bazzite and SteamOS are covered. The project page has the per-distribution commands.
Something not working? The troubleshooting page covers the common cases.