Published May 14, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always happy to talk about. Prior to joining XDA in 2021, he worked at Neowin: https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/jo%C3%A3o-carrasqueira/ At the start of 2026, the team behind Bazzite — one of the more popular Linux distros for gaming, specifically on handhelds — announced the Open Gaming Collective (OGC), an initiative bringing together developers from various projects to improve gaming across the board. Aside from Bazzite, the project was joined by the teams at Nobara, ChimeraOS, ASUS Linux, and more. But one big distro with a focus on gaming was not part of that: CachyOS. The Arch-based distribution was notably missing from the list of partners, and not too long after the initiative was revealed, the team confirmed its intentions to stay out of this project.…