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Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective (theverge.com) 30

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A group of Linux gaming-focused distros and developers have formed the Open Gaming Collective to pool work on shared components like kernels, input systems, and Valve tooling. The Verge reports: Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to the Linux gaming ecosystem and âoecentralize efforts around critical components like kernel patches, input tooling, and essential gaming packages such as gamescope." The other founding members of the OGC include Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and Asus Linux.

[...] It's worth noting that this will mean some changes to Bazzite, which is switching to the OGC kernel, replacing HHD with InputPlumber as its input framework, and integrating features like RGB and fan control into the Steam UI. Bazzite also added that, "We'll be sharing patches we've made to various Valve packages with the OGC and attempting to upstream everything we can."
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  • I still don't see the point (Score:3)

    by diffract ( 7165501 ) on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:54PM (#65957884)
    Valve has already been doing great things for gaming on Linux, they don't need this. Bazzite is still doing its things and sharing it with anyone interested, they don't need this. This feels like a circlejerk group who might try to be relevant by pushing an agenda

    • Valve has already been doing great things for gaming on Linux, they don't need this. Bazzite is still doing its things and sharing it with anyone interested, they don't need this. This feels like a circlejerk group who might try to be relevant by pushing an agenda

      What agenda would the be pushing? To get more gaming on Linux?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by xeoron ( 639412 )
      GOG has signaled they want to moving gaming away from Windows so maybe they will through their weight behind it and thus and compete with Valve in Linux by helping others use GOG on Linux

  • I just saw a story (Score:3)

    by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:22PM (#65957914)
    That said a third of game developers were laid off in the last 2 years. Ordinarily if an industry fired 1/3 of its employees that would be a major issue because it would inevitably result in a whole slew of new businesses either started by those ex employees or when people pick up those ex employees for cheap.

    It's an extremely bleak sign for our economy that the industry felt safe firing that many people. Like something is structurally wrong. Normally companies would at least try to hang on to some of those people to prevent them from ending up with competitors.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      That said a third of game developers were laid off in the last 2 years. Ordinarily if an industry fired 1/3 of its employees that would be a major issue because it would inevitably result in a whole slew of new businesses either started by those ex employees or when people pick up those ex employees for cheap.

      It's an extremely bleak sign for our economy that the industry felt safe firing that many people. Like something is structurally wrong. Normally companies would at least try to hang on to some of those

  • In the 30 years I've been using Linux, I've never once been able to get it fully working on consumer hardware. I use Linux daily in a VM for writing software, so I don't consider the failure mine.

    • Re:Linux sucks (on the desktop) (Score:5, Informative)

      by sound+vision ( 884283 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:17AM (#65958158) Journal

      It seems to have reversed in the last few years for me. My laptop from 2020 was never able to wake back up from sleep mode, until Windows 10 hit EOL and I put Debian on it. I've also noticed a lot less desktop/video/UI issues since switching to a distro/DE with Wayland.

      Positive trajectory aside, it's not that Linux is so perfect and problem-free. It's that Windows 10/11 really, really sucks, even by Microsoft standards. The bottom's fallen out. I'm talking to a guy right now, in the window underneath this one, about how this week's update killed USB audio support. There's a cascade of random shit that breaks damn near ever Tuesday now.

      The main issue with Linux is still what it always was, lack of application support. Most of the stuff I use will probably run, but potential licensing/DRM issues discourage me from registering an install that may or may not end up working. And most of the blame for that goes on the developers using DRM, not the operating system.

    • Re:Linux sucks (on the desktop) (Score:5, Informative)

      by markdavis ( 642305 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:40AM (#65958424)

      >"In the 30 years I've been using Linux, I've never once been able to get it fully working on consumer hardware."

      You either have extraordinarily bad luck or this is just nonsense. I have managed hundreds and hundreds of Linux machines of all types for decades, the majority being desktops and laptops. I have huge success with "fully working" on the overwhelming majority of "consumer" (however you define that) hardware. I have had zero major issues on any install on any platform, ever, in at least the last decade (probably longer). And before that it was extremely rare to have a major issue. I am not alone.... I don't have extraordinarily good luck. Most everyone I know who runs Linux (and I know a lot of people who do) have had nothing but positive experiences.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by HiThere ( 15173 )

        It depends on what he means by "fully working". I've had it "fully working" by my definition since around 2000. Much before that and it didn't, again by my definition. Note that it was missing a lot of basic applications, like a decent word processor. I suspect that he means "properly interfacing with particular proprietary hardware", which is legitimate for several use cases if you consider that the entire system rather than just the kernel should be called "Linux".

      • It always surprises me when people bitch about hardware support. My experience has been that driver support is respectable, but software design and usability is chronically awful. All the issues that I have with Linux (any distro, any DE) have to do with things that are totally under the control of the community.

        Sure, Linux installs and runs perfectly fine, and geeks always gush about how simple and easy it is to install, and how everything "just works." It's what happens after installation that's a tota

  • OGC (Score:4, Interesting)

    by samwichse ( 1056268 ) on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:28PM (#65957922)

    OGC looks like a little emoticon of a guy holding his dick.

  • Who? (Score:2)

    by ledow ( 319597 )

    I can safely say that, being a massive gamer, having used Linux (and frequented Slashdot) for probably 30-35 years, having spent half that time with a primary Linux desktop/laptop, having ported some games to the GP2X (a Korean, handheld Linux-based console), being a Steam Deck owner and developer, and recently having purchased a Framework laptop to use as my primary desktop including a LOT of gaming (having seen the work that Valve's done to make Proton work)...

    I've never heard of a single one of those com

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