Like this?

They knew what they were doing 😏

£14,000 to find a way to sneak it in.

a snowman with a boner?

This is hilarious

Right? Can you imagine this headline except it says MS, Google, and Apple are going to move toward a common kernel?

If I was the tyrant king of Lemmy I would force all communities to do this

You know what, I honestly hate this argument.

The normal user that has a job, a life, a world outside of social media isn't going to be going to monitor and go to all the disparate original sources to find this information. The journalists who are paid to go to all of these original sources, aggregate, add their thoughts if they have it, and let their audience know about all the news. They deserve to be paid by their job to aggregate and inform with some clicks and some ad revenue.

Otherwise, how about you go and trawl the internet for all gaming news all day every day and do it for free for the rest of us instead of complaining. But we all know none of you complainers do, you go to the same gaming sites OP does, reads the same articles, and then just complain about how unoriginal everyone else is.

Tbf, the article author links the original source right at the start lol

I think the main difference is before they would go

kernel patch -> own repo -> (own distro and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros

now they're gonna go

kernel patch -> OGC repo -> (OGC distros and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros

and that means there will be way more code reviewers and testers (and more automated testing?) happening before release

and these things being merged together earlier also makes it easier, especially since I imagine the mainline Linux is pretty slow to accept gaming-related patches

Yes, but this formalizes things, possibly putting in place policies and SOPs and uniformly agreed upon structures

Not to mention, depending on the legal structure, tax benefits and cash pooling and other financial benefits

Guess ASUS gets my money.