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

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.