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Just out of curiousness, does the Xbox have a shell like my iPhone? Can I ssh from my Xbox? I can from my iPhone, for all intents it seems like a personal compu

Just out of curiousness, does the Xbox have a shell like my iPhone? Can I ssh from my Xbox? I can from my iPhone, for all intents it seems like a personal computer (PC) and can do anything my computer can do. My phone wasn’t marketed as a gaming console either. I’m not sure comparing an Xbox and a phone is anywhere near the same thing. I could be wrong though.

jsnell 5y ago
The Xbox certainly has sufficient hardware and software capabilities to run a shell or a ssh client; it is basically PC hardware and a PC operating system, just locked down. If it doesn't have a ssh client, it's only because Microsoft didn't let the app onto the Xbox store. If that's the line you draw, then the obvious thing for Apple to do is to remove ssh clients from the store.
- withinboredom 5y ago
  Heh, that’d actually be entertaining. After that it would be image editing, then text editors, then, actually just delete the utilities section from the App Store…
  - tehbeard 5y ago
    The previous gen had a developer mode which practically let you run Windows apps... All for a one time fee of $20? Of course this was within their hypervisor and security systems, so you were kept well away from the games/dashboard/Xbox live. But, homebrew and emulators could run pretty well on there, an SSH client or vscode probably would just take a small amount of porting.
- meheleventyone 5y ago
  It has Edge on it so if you can do a browser version you can do whatever. If you plug in a keyboard and mouse you can gamedev on our platform for example.
- nomel 5y ago
  Imagine how well the xbox would sell if there was a PC "homework" mode, where you could just boot into windows. I doubt Microsoft would do that to their PC making brethren though.
kitsunesoba 5y ago
The latest models of Xbox and PlayStation are basically just Ryzen 3700X + Radeon 5700XT PCs, with the former running a Windows variant and the latter running a FreeBSD variant. They’re pretty similar in stymied potential to iOS devices.

jsnell 5y ago

The Xbox certainly has sufficient hardware and software capabilities to run a shell or a ssh client; it is basically PC hardware and a PC operating system, just locked down. If it doesn't have a ssh client, it's only because Microsoft didn't let the app onto the Xbox store. If that's the line you draw, then the obvious thing for Apple to do is to remove ssh clients from the store.

withinboredom 5y ago
Heh, that’d actually be entertaining. After that it would be image editing, then text editors, then, actually just delete the utilities section from the App Store…
- tehbeard 5y ago
  The previous gen had a developer mode which practically let you run Windows apps... All for a one time fee of $20? Of course this was within their hypervisor and security systems, so you were kept well away from the games/dashboard/Xbox live. But, homebrew and emulators could run pretty well on there, an SSH client or vscode probably would just take a small amount of porting.
meheleventyone 5y ago
It has Edge on it so if you can do a browser version you can do whatever. If you plug in a keyboard and mouse you can gamedev on our platform for example.
nomel 5y ago
Imagine how well the xbox would sell if there was a PC "homework" mode, where you could just boot into windows. I doubt Microsoft would do that to their PC making brethren though.

kitsunesoba 5y ago

The latest models of Xbox and PlayStation are basically just Ryzen 3700X + Radeon 5700XT PCs, with the former running a Windows variant and the latter running a FreeBSD variant. They’re pretty similar in stymied potential to iOS devices.