This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows.




Open Hardware Monitor is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is GPU Screen Recorder, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Open Hardware Monitor and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Open Hardware Monitor are MangoHUD, CPU-X (by X0rg), GreenWithEnvy and CoreCtrl.
This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows.




A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb - flightlessmango/MangoHud



CPU-X is a free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.




GWE is a GTK system utility designed to provide information, control the fans and overclock your NVIDIA video card and graphics processor.

CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles.

Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux. It shows detailed system info, including hardware, environment, and kernel. It can use lm_sensors and ACPI for temperature and battery information. It also has four CPU banchmarks and two FPU benchmarks.



hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

GST is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.

cpufetch is a command-line tool written in C that displays the CPU information in a clean and beautiful way.




Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans.


Goverlay is an easy graphical interface to configure MangoHud, vkBasalt, and OptiScaler. Goverlay helps Linux gamers get the most out of their systems by providing an easy-to-use graphical interface to configure MangoHud, vkBasalt, and OptiScaler.



Open Hardware Monitor gives you data on your computer hardware's state, such as CPU and CPU use and physical temperature, RAM use, etc.
GPU Screen Recorder is a screen image recorder . . . not at all the same thing.