It does provide you with access to the IoT LTSC or LTSC editions which I believe would still allow you to skip the need to set up a Microsoft account.

I could be wrong on that detail, it’s been a while.

Currently on linux-zen, up to date (6.13.2.zen1-1)

I’ve tried following this guide and the one on Arch’s Wiki to no avail, but I’m sure I could’ve messed something up somewhere somehow.

I think I’ve ruled out the issue being loopback specific, because even trying to use the Line In as intended (eg: joining a Discord call with the Line In set as the microphone), no audio comes through.

The motherboard is pretty recent, recent enough that it seems it doesn’t have Linux compatible drivers for Bluetooth, so I wouldn’t be surprised if my audio issues stemmed from the same problem. That, or the motherboard doing this weird jack-to-usb bridge…

QasMixer is listing the same devices as alsamixer. Two Speaker lines: PCM, 0 and PCM, 1 Three Capture lines: Line, Mic, Analog In

All are enabled and unmuted.

Tinkering with it and so far nothing with QasMixer is yielding any results.