A whole bunch of different Linux gaming distros are teaming up to 'improve the open source gaming ecosystem'

Linux gaming is here to stay, baby. That feels like a good summation of the gaming OS arena of 2025/2026. It's been going from strength to strength, thanks to continual Proton updates, attention garnered from the Legion Go S and the upcoming Steam Machine, and as of today, even official Nvidia GeForce Now support. And now it's getting the active and single-minded focus of a conglomeration of different Linux distributions.

It comes in the form of the Open Gaming Collective (OGC), a group formed...