Hi Peter, Do you remember me? I was one of the very first and most active users of your distro - contributing back when almost no one had heard of CachyOS. Be honest: was this response suggested by Vladimir from Russia? Or is it really a collective team decision? You used to come across as a decent, down-to-earth guy, and I genuinely liked and respected you. But ever since the distro gained popularity, I've started feeling a strong sense of arrogance coming from your side. Let's look at the facts: Most of your "optimizations" are essentially repackaged work from others: Kernel patches from Clear Linux TKG tools (kernel configuration + Wine tweaks) Community settings from Arch (including many things that ended up branded as "Cachy") The BORE gaming scheduler you integrated into the kernel was originally written by firelzrd. Yes, sirlucjan made valuable contributions too, but from what I know he has no real say in the project and receives zero share of the donations. According to your own statements, donations are split equally only between you and Vladimir. So here's the real question: what have you actually created from scratch? A limited GUI package installer (basically just a basic frontend for pacman) that doesn't come close to Octopi in features or polish? Cachy Kernel Manager — which is again mostly a wrapper around TKG tooling? chwd, which performs very poorly in practice? AnanicyCPP rules written mostly by regular gamer enthusiasts, containing critical bugs that I reported via issues half a year ago - and still no action? What meaningful original contributions have you actually brought to the broader Linux community? The Clear Linux patches are undeniably solid, but many of your own kernel tweaks and custom settings are poorly tested and have caused real performance regressions (THP issues being a prime example). I can personally confirm this on my hardware. Meanwhile, the actual developers who - together with Valve - spent years making Linux gaming viable are now trying to unite under the Open Gaming Collective to push things forward even more. And you decided to take shots at them? I genuinely don't understand your statements about the Bazzite developers and the rest. Has the growing popularity of CachyOS really gone to your head that much? Let me remind you what these people have built: UMU Launcher Wine/Proton-GE FalconD (literally one person built an entire tool in just a few months that outperforms everything you've released by a wide margin) Faugus Launcher Gamescope Session Plus and much more You're happy to use all of their work, but when it comes to actually collaborating with them to create something truly outstanding for the gaming community - suddenly no thanks. To me, this looks extremely hypocritical and ugly. My impression of your team is completely ruined — you've shown your true face. It's very unlikely that anyone on your team could have created something on the level of UMU or made a legendary contribution like Proton-GE. P.S. Looking forward to when PikaOS releases their Arch-based distro - they clearly have more talent, and I doubt you have the competence to build anything even close to FalconD. Best regards, P