com.obsproject.Studio VS ssr

The "see details" link takes you to: https://github.com/flathub/com.obsproject.Studio/graphs/contributors/

With official packages, I have even more questions. Example: OBS Studio. The publisher link points to this repo, which is currently archived, with the message "This repository is no longer used to build OBS. Issues should be reported at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio". After some digging, I found they're using Github Actions to automatically publish to Flathub on release, which is fine (and pretty cool), but I would still prefer that Flathub provide some kind of records on their end. What assurances do I have that the package installed on my machine from Flathub is the one that was built by upstream? Maybe they have something and I'm not looking in the right place.

Big news for Linux users: We now officially ship OBS Studio via Flatpak (in addition to the PPA), greatly expanding support for more distros and providing a much more consistent experience, no matter your environment. Download it from Flathub here - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.obsproject.Studio

OBS (stream/rec): Flatpak, Steam(?)

There is obs-studio package in Debian, try using that. Alternatively, you could install it as a Flatpak via Flathub (there were also recent news of OBS Project is making it their official Linux package instead of Ubuntu PPA).

I'm not the only one. The issue tracker is full of people having serious issues like, y'know "Doesn't work at all" and "No fonts," and "Crashes on Alt-Tab," etc.

If OBS is too complicated for you, try SimpleScreenRecorder.

if not, the source code is hosted on github. -- https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr

Finally, SimpleScreenRecorder doesn't work on Wayland, which is a hard deal breaker.

You maybe should have a look at "simple screenrecorder", should be available for any distros. https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr

SSR is really easy and works well for me.

and i'm a sharks/kraken fan y'all need to get a clipper - lazyman and simplescreenrecorder are great

SimpleScreenRecorder does not work with Wayland: https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/431

No. They just use those functions I mentioned earlier. Here is the code in SimpleScreenRecorder, for instance.