There are very few chipsets used in budget USB interfaces, you would be very unlucky if your OS doesn't support a new device. I occasionally use a pc for background audio and use a Behringer uca222 interface. I like the fact that it is on the end of a cable and has phono connectors, I worry both about accidentally knocking and damaging a "dongle" and the relative fragility of headphone jacks. This uses a cheap Burr-Brown chip (Texas instruments by another name). C-Audio, Realtek and Via are other ones I've seen at the budget end, I'm not aware that any particular budget chipset is notably better or worse than any other.