Can I easily connect a microphone to the laptop (jack) without a sound card / audio interface?

Can I easily connect a microphone to the laptop (jack) without a sound card / audio interface?

There are laptops where you still have to set that the microphone is accepted.

What kind of laptop do you have? The sound card is surely built into the laptop. Insert the plug into the jack and you already have a microphone.

If the laptop does not have a sound card, then it does not need a jack connection.

Conversely, this means:

If the laptop has a jack connection, a sound chip or a sound card is also installed.

Your notebook should already have a sound card, but otherwise it wouldn't have a jack input. But if you only have one jack socket you have to be careful, this is a combined socket for headphones and microphone at the same time. Then you probably need a Y adapter.

With Windows you can right-click on the speaker icon and then click on recording devices.

If you don't expect hi-fi quality, you can operate dynamic microphones on the notebook.