The best OBS alternatives for Linux are Screenix for polished tutorials, Kooha for simple Wayland recording, GPU Screen Recorder for gameplay, SimpleScreenRecorder for X11, and wf-recorder for the terminal
OBS Studio is excellent software, I have used it, benchmarked it, and learned from it
It is also the wrong tool for a surprising number of Linux screen recordings
If you stream, manage several cameras, build scenes, route audio through filters, or use capture cards, OBS is probably still the best choice
If you want to record a clean product demo, tutorial, bug report, or short walkthrough, its flexibility can become setup work, you configure sources, arrange the canvas, check the audio mixer, choose an encoder, record, then open another editor to add zooms, cursor emphasis, cuts, and captions
