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PayPalThe Open Gaming Collective (OGC) was an interesting announcement recently from a few bigger names, but the CachyOS team opted out of it and now we know why.
Currently the OGC includes the likes of Bazzite & Universal Blue, ASUS Linux, ShadowBlip, PikaOS, Fyra Labs along with ChimeraOS, Nobara and Playtron.
In a post on Reddit that was made in relation to our own coverage of it, the founder of CachyOS ( Peter Jung / ptr1337 ) jumped into the comments to explain why they decided not to join in. From their own words:
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
Side-note: For those unfamiliar with Playtron, they made a big splash back in early 2024 about making a new Linux-based OS for gaming while pulling in a number of open source developers. The first (and only?) hardware actually using it appears to be the SuiPlay0X1, which has some weird web3 / crypto blockchain stuff. And eventually, Playtron announced their own crypto currency back in May 2025. Playtron haven't announced anything at all since then.
In a follow-up Reddit comment Jung from CachyOS also mentioned:
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.
Staying out of any possible drama and just continuing to do your own thing is a very valid stance to take. Hopefully both CachyOS and the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) continue on to do great work for the benefit of all Linux users, even if it's apart.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Seems to be very wisely for CachyOS to not join OGC.
Hopefully both CachyOS and the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) continue on to do great work for the benefit of all Linux users, even if it's apart.Sentence of the week!
Now have nice weekend und game on!
Last edited by Tevur on 30 Jan 2026 at 4:36 pm UTC
The_Real_Bitterman a day ago
fenglengshun 14 hours ago
At the very least, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and trust them as a team because they were on it when there were issues.
Hope CachyOS can work on my long term because I really enjoyed the distro so far.
Quoting: RedditorHave you considered offering Antheas a job on CachyOS Handheld Edition? He was the one who made things work at Bazzite and would be a great addition.
Quoting: ptr1337Could be a great technical enhancement, but we keep us away jumping into drama 😬Further emphasizing a desire to avoid potentially troublesome entanglements, along with the Playtron comment.
Their current focus is probably on the server edition that was hinted in [their end of year blog post](https://cachyos.org/blog/2025-christmas-new-year/).
I know a lot of people use the distro as a NAS OS due to their ZFS implementation. I'm interested in seeing what they implement in order to break out and into more broad environments.
fenglengshun 13 hours ago
Quoting: DirgeI know a lot of people use the distro as a NAS OS due to their ZFS implementation. I'm interested in seeing what they implement in order to break out and into more broad environments.Same. I prefer having the same distro on my machines, and so far I'm liking CachyOS. I'd want to see what the server edition offers and see it tested before using it on my repurposed old laptop.
Quoting: fenglengshunI've been running a Cachyfied-Arch on a homelab mini PC for over two years and it's been amazing. The performance is incomparable to any other traditional server distro that most people normally recommend, plus the added benefit and flexibility of being able to easily install the latest version of pretty much any Linux package, makes me happy to recommend Arch/Cachy for any experienced Linux folks looking to use it as a sever OS.Quoting: DirgeI know a lot of people use the distro as a NAS OS due to their ZFS implementation. I'm interested in seeing what they implement in order to break out and into more broad environments.Same. I prefer having the same distro on my machines, and so far I'm liking CachyOS. I'd want to see what the server edition offers and see it tested before using it on my repurposed old laptop.
But for a more serious (production) or install-it-and-forget-it type scenarios though, I'd recommend a lightweight immutable and atomic distro, such as uCore OS - because Arch/Cachy ocassionally breaks or needs manual intervention, and that might not be acceptable for some server scenarios.
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