🔗 Bazzite joins the new Open Gaming Collective
Several distro maintainers get together to push Linux gaming.
The goal of the OGC is to centralize efforts around critical components like kernel patches, input tooling, and essential gaming packages such as gamescope. Instead of each distro maintaining separate patches and fragmented hardware support, improvements can now be shared across the entire ecosystem. In short: a win for one project becomes a win for everyone.
ChimeraOS, Nobara, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, ASUS Linux, and the Bazzite people are all part of the collective.
And some changes to Bazzite have already been announced, like HHD being phased out in favor of InputPlumber (also used by SteamOS), a new kernel, and more.
This is is a good thing. It doesn't make much sense that several teams work on the same thing, especially in the open source community. The more resources can be shared, the better the teams can focus on what makes each distro unique.
One player that is missing is CachyOS, as they have opted out for a few reasons: they don't focus as much on handheld gaming, don't want to be locked into bureaucratic loopholes, and (understandably) do not want to be associated with Playtron.