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