why doesnt steam detect my mic on ubuntu

[Cocos]

i just switched off of win10 to ubuntu 20.04 and everything is working fine (with proton and such), but for some reason in the voice settings my microphone (blue yeti) doesn't show up as an input device. my system settings show that it is connected and in use and that it picks up audio, and it also works in discord (i've ran discord's "test your mic" feature, so i know it works). my friends can hear me on discord. so why doesn't steam detect my mic? if it matters, i've played around a bit with pulse audio, didn't really find anything

ive spent like 30 minutes looking it up and all of the existing "answers" are about no actual audio going through instead of my specific issue of no DEVICE being detected

i do not want to use text chat in tf2 dude its basically pointless in casual 😭

[r.linder]

1. Why version 20.04 when the latest versions are 24.04.1 LTS and 24.10?

2. Which version of Steam, make sure it's the .deb version and not flatpak

[Cocos]

sorry, it's 20.04.1. that's my bad
and im not a linux person, i installed steam through snap (the steam client that i downloaded was published by Canonical), but i guess i should download it from steampowered instead? didn't bother trying that

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Configure the Mic in the OS and make it the default.

Then launch Steam and configure the Settings for Voice and PTT

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Dromedary:

sorry, it's 20.04.1. that's my bad
and im not a linux person, i installed steam through snap (the steam client that i downloaded was published by Canonical), but i guess i should download it from steampowered instead? didn't bother trying that

24.x.x is from this year, what you're saying is from 2020

getting the proper version of steam is as simple as running 'sudo apt install steam'

[Cocos]

dude i keep speaking wrong
24.04.1 IT IS LTS

i installed the debian instead of from snap and the problem was fixed

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Dromedary:

dude i keep speaking wrong
24.04.1 IT IS LTS

i installed the debian instead of from snap and the problem was fixed

makes sense, the snap version is the worst

if you have any more problems you might have better luck on the steam for linux forums, not many people that frequent the hwos forum use linux