I have an Xbox one. With the somewhat recent cracking of them, would it be possible to install on that?
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Maybe? You probably already can install Linux, but the compatibility would probably need some elbow grease, and some level of modding your system.
Sounds beyond me already. 😆
I’m hoping someone comes up with a tutorial one day. Why not turn old Xbox Ones in to underpowered Steam Machines, amirite?
Well that's why so many people were keen for the PS3 supporting Linux way back when, but they had to remove it because people such as the US military were using them for cheap computing clusters.
You can either have an open system that lets you do what you want, or a cheap system subsidised by the company selling it, but you can't have both unfortunately.
Its the form factor and power consumption.
I could build a steamos machine, but whats the point? I would still want my favorite flavor of linux with steam on in instead.
Remember everything in the cube is done for you, including the power supply inside. You can build similar, but this is a very compact single fan system.
Gabe cube also has cool hardware features you can't get on a PC like background updates and HDMICEC.
Hardware features? Background updates? Sorry, could you elaborate?
Edit: Man, this deserved a downvote? Hilariously thin skinned, ain't ya?
Not sure how to more than I have. A web search might clear it up?
I mean, how is a background update a hardware feature?
Because it requires special hardware...
I don't know about the background updates, but the HDMI CEC allows for the device and the TV to sync with each. Think like adjusting the volume on the TV adjusting the volume on the soundbar, or your Steam machine to turn on when you turned on your TV. To my knowledge this required specific hardware normal consumer motherboards don't support.
Couldn't you just do that with any PC? Are there some specific benefits?
Gabecube is very nice and open compared to a normal console, but if you're coming from a pc, it's the opposite in some ways. I personally would not want an os built around an online login.
Or atomic.. I love tinkering too much
You can have immuability without loosing tinkering possibilities. I do that on NixOS.
The more I learn the more I don't want flatpaks on my machine so of course I am requiring something else than SteamOS or bazzite.
I use NixOS but I have a few flatpaks. They're not my preferred packaging option (nix is) but they work decently well.
Same, however it's worth noting that flatpaks are not giving us the proper sandboxed experience it promises to offer and many are packages like crap.
Yeah that's another one I'm fine with flatpaks depending on the application but in most cases give me my native packages
Does not need an online login.
The OS is not built around any login. It just boots straight into Steam by default. This is the experience consumers expect from a console. But of course you can just exit it, and since it's Linux you can even disable it entirely.
The OS requires an online login?
I don't know if the OS exactly requires an online login, but it basically boots into the Steam client, and that won't do you much good without a Steam account.
Yeah this is incorrect the OS doesn't require a steam login to work. You can bypass the steam login at boot if you want to and only need it to play steam games.
Require? I'm pretty sure you can get to desktop without, but how about big picture and gamescope? I've never seen steam ui without logging in.
You click "offline mode" if thats what you want.