i managed to get it working in a way with "sudo apt install obs-studio distroav" to get a non snap&flatpak native version.
i ended up with obs v32.1.0, sadly this means a few of the plugins i use that i have saved dont work with it.
how ever i am sorting it out little by little some work some dont, i may just have to use older versions of plugins an hope it works or just wait till updates come avalible
Yeah, I've never been impressed with the concept of containers, for something like OBS. They're great for wide compatibility and security, because they're self-contained with all the required dependencies and they're not allowed outside of their separate containers by default. But that's where the benefits end. For a performance thing like OBS, that needs access to hardware (GPU) and continuously churns through a lot of data (live video), containers don't really work all that well.
Yes, you can open up the permissions, until you've completely nerfed the security part to make it run, but you still have a performance hit and an awkward way to install plugins. If you move them from the container install directory to the native install directory (yes, they're different), they *might* "just work", but you have to do that manually and know where both of those directories are, which I don't because I gave up on non-native OBS a long time ago.
So for OBS at least, stick with native. Other things aren't worth fussing about - if Mozilla wants to snap itself, fine, let 'em do that - but OBS is.
i was orignaly on linux mint and was liking it but i found a new way to capture things [games & vtube programes] but it requierd pipewire v1.2.7 minumum mint had v1.0.5.
i tryed adding a newer pipewire ppa but when mint updated then next day the ppa updated it broke all my audio and trying to fix it as a linux novice as expected i made it worse and mints DE wouldnt even load, managed to recover the DE so i could backup my files or clone the drive to an external.
so after that feasco i checked several distros an since i do vr and vtubing i want steam updates as soon as valve releases them so thet ment i needed a debian based distro and i considered studio but its pipewire wasnt as new as kubuntu plus i seen posts about that kubuntu is way less pushy about forcing snaps. XD so here i am since i had to be so picky [head smash wall]
kubuntu 26.04 LTS has pipewire v1.6.2
Ubuntu Studio has a TON of stuff pre-installed and already working. If you're relatively new to Linux and don't want to mess with installing stuff yet, you might like that.
I would stick with the LTS versions of course, and wait for at least the first point release before grabbing the new one. 24.04 is supported for a full year after 26.04.0 is released, and 26.04.1 will come only a few months after .0. At the very least, .1 will include a lot of bug fixes that weren't caught during the pre-release testing, so you don't have to deal with those either.
In short, if you need something ***NOW!!!***, go with the latest 24.04.x. Once 26.04.1 is out, *then* start to consider that version.
discourse.ubuntu.com
