It now appears that the Xbox 360 is available to be ported to:-
The question i am trying to grapple with is why there no Ubuntu games O/S with possible games development application/s available using Launchpad & snaps?
The future is bright.
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My son and I have discussed this as something he wants to head-up, being a teenage gamer and all. How does an Ubuntu Gaming flavor sound? Would not only be optimized for gaming, but be for game developers.
(moved to Flavors because this seems like something that would be best there)
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Is that really necessary instead just integrate that stuff into regular Ubuntu.
As a flavor lead, I take offense to that. The same could be argued for Ubuntu Studio and Edubuntu, but thereâs a reason why specialized or purpose-based flavors (or spins) exist.
So, please do not suggest the work would need to be done in Ubuntu Desktop. Iâm going to give a solid NEGATIVE ACKNOLEDGEMENT to your suggestion.
Flavors are valuable to Ubuntu. Full-stop.
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I wasnât trying to offend you sir.
what i was trying to say is to integrate that gaming stuf in base ubuntu so all the flavours profit it from it because gaming on linux is so hot right now.
No offence to what i am about to say it is just my opninion not a fact but these 2 flavers you mentioned never made sense to me.
You can just download them ? or offer like a download bundle for these programs its just a bunch of programs what a waste of resources on working and mainting a entire distro for.
Unfortunately, you canât say âno offense to what Iâm about to sayâ and not expect someone to get offended by what you say when you know itâs going to offend them. It doesnât work that way.
Ok, you clearly donât know anything about the Ubuntu ecosystem or what the Official Flavors are. Ubuntu is more than just the Ubuntu Desktop (GNOME) .iso image or the Ubuntu Server .iso image. Members of the community have created flavors based on other desktop environments or specialties. These flavors are not separate distributions from Ubuntu, but different ways of experiencing Ubuntu altogether.
However, to address your inquiry as you clearly havenât researched anything for yourselves, Edubuntu and Ubuntu Studio are offered as ways to include preinstalled software and configurations for those in the Educational and Content Creation sectors respectively.
Edubuntu is built on top of Ubuntu Desktopâs minimal installation, so itâs also using GNOME, but it has educational applications as well as other applications used instead of some you would normally find. It also has some parental controls and administration options that you donât find in Ubuntu Desktop. It is developed with learning and teaching put first and foremost, and that shows in the customization of the GNOME environment, which Ubuntu Desktop is not.
Ubuntu Studio, however, is much more complicated. It uses the KDE Plasma desktop environment and is not built on-top of Kubuntu, even though the two share packages. It has its own unique experience that cannot be found anywhere else, and not only has the content creation software installed by default, but the audio subsystem fine-tuned for low latency. This is not easily achieved by just installing a few packages, as youâve implied.
As for the âwhat a waste of resources working on maintaining an entire distroâ, I assure you, these are not entire distros but different default experiences of Ubuntu. I donât work for Canonical, so itâs not like theyâre wasting resources, and these are projects of passion and labors of love. I despise the term âwaste of resourcesâ when referring to community volunteer projects. Thatâs why Iâm offended as I put my heart and soul into this stuff yet you trivialize it.
The .iso images for Edubuntu and Ubuntu Studio are at https://edubuntu.org and https://ubuntustudio.org respectively, and theyâre built by the vast infrastructure Canonical provides.
So, before you post your response, I want you to think very carefully about how that comes across, because being disrespectful and slighting any of the flavors of Ubuntu like you have is disrespectful whether you meant it or not, and that violates the Ubuntu Code of Conduct which are the basis of the very rules of this discourse.
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Moderation Note
It is possible to disagree constructively, without giving offense.
Next time, take that path.
Letâs be clear for everybody:
Denigration or devaluing of volunteer open-source contribution is plain rude.
Donât do it.
Collaboration and contribution --not opinion-- is the primary purpose of Ubuntu Discourse.
Please return to the topic, which is constructive discussion of possible Ubuntu on Xbox360 hardware.
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Back to the topic at hand, I love this idea but how would we all be able to agree on a desktop environment? 
I may have a spare box to test on.
Serving both gamers and game developers will inevitably create a very healthy community. That combination is brilliant.
Iâll be happy as long as thereâs a custom tileset for nethack!
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Come on, thatâs easy 
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If Kodi could run as its own DE, that would be amazing.
Iâll say this: my son and I are already actively working on something. So far he has chosen the GNOME DE as it has a couple of advantages when it comes to gaming:
- Integration with
gamemode, and - Itâs maintenance is done by the Desktop team, meaning basically low-maintenance.
Weâve tagged these packages for default installation to facilitate just that:
- godot
- krita
- gimp
- blender
Right now, weâre working on which games should be included. So far, the list is pretty good, and weâre only in the Cs of the games category.
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Well, we once had this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq_WaOLjdyQ
(would just need some more categories for games and apps that could run on an xbox)
I mean, the biggest problem with xbox is that it runs on PowerPC, so while it could have Linux, it cannot have Ubuntu.
And yes, UbuntuTV. Sad we never saw it happen.
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Oh, right, we dropped the old powerpc arch for ppc64el (IBM Power8 onwards) when Apple switched to x86, I totally forgot that Xbox isnt x86 âŠ
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Why - when itâs a good console?
Xbox was never the target to begin with, so hindsight is 20/20? This was over a decade ago.
Reviving a whole architecture is way too complicated as we simply donât have those builders anymore, so the likelihood of this happening is close to 0.
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So what youâre basically telling me is that âthe nucâ or nothing?
I still havenât been paid for that idea of the nuc, either⊠but such is life.
Have you heard of Lewis Capaldi 
Heh, I have not.
I donât understand that reference. NUC to me means âNext Unit of Computingâ which is a mini desktop PC. So, admittedly, Iâm a bit lost.
The nuc is basically x86 in a small ânucâ of a box. Itâs the point I was making about x86 or nothingâŠ
As a side note Lewis Capaldi means âshow me the money for my ideasâ, heâs also on Spotify.
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There was no port for any console, the Ubuntu PowerPC Arch was always mainly targeting Apple hardware, clones of it and some serversâŠ
When that hardware went away there was no reason to invest massive manpower into keeping it, focus was shifted to IBM power systems and these are still supported today
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