{"id":447925,"date":"2026-02-01T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:46:12","slug":"gpds-bazzite-fiasco-bad-timing-worse-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447925\/","title":{"rendered":"GPD\u2019s Bazzite Fiasco: Bad Timing, Worse Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/retrohandhelds.gg\/gpd-win-5-igg-launch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GPD<\/a> started promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/retrohandhelds.gg\/budget-bazzite-box-ayaneo-am01\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bazzite<\/a> support on the <a href=\"https:\/\/retrohandhelds.gg\/gpd-announce-the-gpd-win-5-with-teaser-trailer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WIN 5<\/a> product page, and in January, a GPD rep posted on Reddit claiming an \u201cofficial Adaptation\u201d of Bazzite was happening and that hardware had been sent to the team. Kyle Gospodnetich, Bazzite\u2019s founder, immediately shot it down in the project\u2019s Discord: \u201cGPD lied to you sorry. We don\u2019t officially work with anyone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gospodnetich later issued a formal statement asking GPD to stop using Bazzite\u2019s name, logos, and intellectual property, clarifying that no hardware had been received and that any collaboration claims were false. The situation escalated when it became clear GPD had been coordinating with Antheas Kapenekakis, a former Bazzite contributor who\u2019d been removed from the project for \u201crepeated violations of our Code of Conduct\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a Reddit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gpdwin\/comments\/1qqup52\/there_really_have_been_a_lot_of_dramatic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, GPD\u2019s YYang explained that Antheas had reached out to them for the WIN 4 and WIN Max 2 collaborations, so continuing with the WIN 5 seemed like standard procedure. Antheas apparently mentioned \u201cinternal management issues\u201d at Bazzite, but GPD assumed that wouldn\u2019t affect the technical work and moved forward anyway. Three days after GPD posted about the collaboration, Bazzite\u2019s announcement went live, denying everything.<\/p>\n<p>GPD insists all their partnerships are voluntary and unpaid, and they\u2019re \u201ccompletely innocent in this matter\u201d. The Bazzite team later confirmed GPD wasn\u2019t at fault and that Antheas had been removed by \u201can overwhelming majority vote\u201d for ongoing conduct issues. Antheas wrote their own version of events, available for your reading pleasure <a href=\"https:\/\/ba.antheas.dev\/bazzite-postmortem.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, if you really enjoy open-source <a href=\"https:\/\/retrohandhelds.gg\/get-a-new-rg34xxsp-it-might-not-be-what-you-thought\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">melodrama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/gpd-release-their-own-statement-on-the-confusion-with-bazzite-linux-support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaming on Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this article? Let us know in the comments below, and chat with us in our <a href=\"https:\/\/retrohandhelds.link\/Discord\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Discord<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This page may contain affiliate links, by purchasing something through a link, Retro Handhelds may earn a small commission on the sale at no additional cost to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in September, GPD started promoting Bazzite support on the WIN 5 product page, and in January, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-447925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}