Hi,
We have thought about this but we opted out, since we do not see all too much benefit from our side. Handheld stuff is not our major focus. Also, we had some concerns that this could get a "burocractic loophole", which seemd to be more or less true so far.
Additionally, to us all this "initiative" locked like an emergency rushed thing, so that Bazzite finds new kernel maintainers and for other technical stuff after kicking the maintainer, which basically made most integration work for them
We neither want to be associated with "Playtron" too. There are more reasons, but Ill keep them out of the public

The main reason is that OGC looks like a sideways stick figure having a wank.

Yeah, the whole situation with OGC and Bazzite is rather messy. From my understanding, you have conflicting accounts from two parties: one is from Bazzite and OGC, i.e. Kyle Gospodnetich and the other from Antheas Kapenekakis, the developer of the Handheld Daemon, a tool for configuring handheld devices that Bazzite uses (for now). Antheas' account can be read here.

From what I understand, there was an internal conflict between Antheas and another Bazzite developer (not Kyle), which caused a rift in the team. At the time Antheas was the one in talks with GPD to port HHD to one of their devices. The team was not aware of this and during this time, Antheas was removed from the team. Then, not being aware of the situation at Bazzite, GDP announced the collab and the Bazzite team, was of course unaware of the talks between Antheas and GDP, which is why they denied the whole thing.

Personally, I'm going to stop updating Bazzite for a while and see how this shakes out, because if Antheas' account is to be believed, the other Bazzite developer mentioned above, Derek J. Clark, is ripping stuff out of Bazzite, including HHD in favor of his own implementation Inputplumber, which is allegedly already causing weird stuff to happen like wifi no longer working on some devices.

On the other hand, I'm hesitant to believe everything Antheas said in his blog, because I simply don't know the guy and also, there's also some sketchy stuff in there like mentioning Derek's Inputplumber implementation being "fundamentally flawed" and not even attempting to explain why. If you're going to label someone's work as such, then I feel at least a cursory explanation why is in order. The other is "apologising on behalf of Kyle" and apologising in someone else's name never sat well with me.

Isn't CachyOS more of a general purpose distro anyway?

I expected the OGC was mainly targeted to gaming-first distros, which in my mind are meant for an entirely different kind of devices with different interests and goals. I don't think there should be much value in CachyOS joining it, regardless.

We have thought about this but we opted out, since we do not see all too much benefit from our side. Handheld stuff is not our major focus. Also, we had some concerns that this could get a "burocractic loophole", which seemd to be more or less true so far.

Additionally, to us all this "initiative" locked like an emergency rushed thing, so that Bazzite finds new kernel maintainers and for other technical stuff after kicking the maintainer, which basically made most integration work for them

We neither want to be associated with "Playtron" too. There are more reasons, but Ill keep them out of the public

There could be theoretically a benefit in terms of specific patches for handheld devices. Antheas made there a really good job in creating and finding the proper patches, but since the person is not in Bazzite anymore and the rest seem not to have their experience.

Weve been working together with ChimeraOS and asus-linux since more then a year. Much testing and integration from inputplumber came from the CachyOS Handheld Edition too! :) I dont think for that a collective with strings attached is needed.

Well, fuck. I just learned about this drama, and it doesn't seem very positive for Bazzite's future. What is it about Discord servers that turns adults into spoiled brats? Idk whether Antheas' version of events are 100% truthful, but he's at least one point about some of the questionable changes recently, and I've seen some power tripping from the Bazzite devs wrt Ptyxis and Bazaar.

Luckily, since it's ostree based I can switch back to eg Fedora Kinoite with a single command if things get too bad. It would be a real shame if Bazzite died though, as it's one of the best out of the box experiences for gaming PCs/handhelds. For now, I'm sticking with it.

We have thought about this but we opted out, since we do not see all too much benefit from our side. Handheld stuff is not our major focus. Also, we had some concerns that this could get a "burocractic loophole", which seemd to be more or less true so far.

Additionally, to us all this "initiative" locked like an emergency rushed thing, so that Bazzite finds new kernel maintainers and for other technical stuff after kicking the maintainer, which basically made most integration work for them

We neither want to be associated with "Playtron" too. There are more reasons, but Ill keep them out of the public

Well that answered my question quickly lol