{"id":207829,"date":"2026-01-29T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:30:09","slug":"these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"These gaming Linux distros are teaming up to fix bigger problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/\">These gaming Linux distros are teaming up to fix bigger problems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 13:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The developers behind several Linux distributions and software that target gamers as their primary users have announced the creation of a coordinated development mission they&#8217;re calling the Open Gaming Collective. The collective&#8217;s aim is to unify efforts to avoid duplicating each other&#8217;s work and to generally strengthen the Linux gaming ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Gaming Collective is made up of the following founding members in this order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>Universal Blue &#038; Bazzite:<\/strong> A Fedora-based immutable Linux distribution and alternative to SteamOS\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>ASUS Linux:<\/strong> A collection of software meant to improve the Linux experience on ROG laptops\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>ShadowBlip:<\/strong> A development group working on enhancing the Linux experience for handhelds and &#8220;console-like PCs&#8221;\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>PikaOS:<\/strong> A Debian-based Linux distribution for gamers that emphasizes stability\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>Fyra Labs:<\/strong> A community of open source developers behind projects like Ultramarine Linux and Fedora&#8217;s Terra repository\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these individual members have posted blog posts on their respective project sites explaining their decision to join the collective and what their plans for the future are. Bazzite has a blog post going over some small shifts and deprecations happening because of the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the founding members, several specific developers and projects are named as &#8220;Strategic Partners &#038; Core Contributors&#8221; of the Open Gaming Collective, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>ChimeraOS<\/strong>\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                   &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These gaming Linux distros are teaming up to fix bigger problems https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-29&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tux-the-linux-mascot-wearing-a-red-gamer-cap-and-a-green-headset-while-holding-a-game-controller-with-the-words-linux-gaming-in-bold-orange-behind-it-and-floating-game-icons-around-the-scene.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,97,71],"class_list":["post-207829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-fedora","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207831,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207829\/revisions\/207831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}