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CachyOS founder explains why they didn't join the new Open Gaming Collective (OGC)

By Liam Dawe,
The 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.

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further

By Liam Dawe,
An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.
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ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of ChimeraOS has announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS that aims to provide more of a classic gaming console like experience.

SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source

By Liam Dawe,
On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices.

Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency

By Liam Dawe,
Reading the press release sounded like a late April Fools joke, but I think we all saw where Playtron were heading. After originally announcing PlaytronOS (now GameOS), their Linux-powered gaming system, they're now directly moving into crypto.

ChimeraOS Linux 48 brings new hardware support for your handhelds and living room PCs

By Liam Dawe,
There's a good few ways of getting Linux on handhelds and living room PCs, with ChimeraOS Linux being one of the great ones. ChimeraOS Linux 48 has just released bringing in a whole lot of improvements.

Intel and NVIDIA drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying to compete with Windows

By Liam Dawe,
During CES, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais spoke to Frandroid about SteamOS, Steam Deck and more and there's some interesting bits in there about the future.

AYANEO 3 now officially announced with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and HDR OLED

By Liam Dawe,
The AYANEO 3 has now had more of a proper announcement with more details and a clear picture of what it actually looks like.

The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS

By Liam Dawe,
The Playtron team working on PlaytronOS has grown recently, with the creator of the popular app Lutris joining up.

Acer enter the handheld PC gaming race with the Nitro Blaze 7

By Liam Dawe,
Here we go again. Another vendor has decided to make their own PC gaming handheld and this time it's Acer with the Nitro Blaze 7.

SteamFork is yet another Linux distribution aiming to be a SteamOS-like for handhelds

By Liam Dawe,
Attack of the clones! Well, sort of anyway. We have Bazzite, ChimeraOS, HoloISO and now SteamFork as well. There's so much choice to get Linux on your handhelds.

Portable Linux distro winesapOS v4.1.0 out now with dual-boot support - good for handhelds

By Liam Dawe,
While most people generally talk about ChimeraOS, Bazzite and at times HoloISO, another choice for your handheld Linux gaming is winesapOS that just had a huge new release.

Valve confirm plan to get Steam Deck's SteamOS on the ROG Ally and more handhelds

By Liam Dawe,
We've known for a long time that Valve planned to get the newer SteamOS that's on the Steam Deck out for more systems, but they've been a bit quiet on it. Now, they've confirmed it's still the plan for the likes of the ROG Ally and other systems.

ChimeraOS 46-2 brings full ASUS ROG Ally X support

By Liam Dawe,
Another update for the handheld and couch gaming Linux distribution ChimeraOS, with version 46-2 out now bringing full ROG Ally X support.

ChimeraOS 46-1 released fixing up some AMD issues, sound fix on some AYANEO & AYN devices

By Liam Dawe,
After the big release of ChimeraOS 46 recently that further expanded the gaming handheld support with this Linux distribution, ChimeraOS 46-1 is out now to clean up some issues.

ChimeraOS 46 brings major upgrades and enhanced handheld support for GPD, AYANEO, OneXPlayer

By Liam Dawe,
ChimeraOS Linux 46 has released today and there's a whole lot of improvements for this handheld and couch-gaming focused Linux distro.

ZOTAC Zone is yet another AMD gaming handheld

By Liam Dawe,
Every hardware vendor seems to want a go at making a handheld, and now its ZOTAC jumping in with the Zone.

Only three months after the Claw, MSI reveal the new MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld

By Liam Dawe,
One problem with a few handheld vendors is that they constantly spawn new models, and it seems like MSI are now doing the same with the MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld.

ASUS reveal the ROG Ally X with more RAM, more storage, larger battery

By Liam Dawe,
ASUS have given their handheld an upgrade with the ROG Ally X now getting a full announcement, along with specifications and a price.

CachyOS gets experimental handheld edition for ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion GO and Steam Deck (soon)

By Liam Dawe,
CachyOS based on Arch Linux has a new release available which brings with it an experimental edition for the growing list of PC gaming handhelds.
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