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View submission: Steam OS on consoles ?
Not Steam OS but people did it.
And you can do it but...
Sony and Microsoft doesn't like it, so you have to jailbreak (root/crack) your console. You need to wait for exploit for your console's OS version (even having too old one can be a problem) or buy outdated one that's vulnerable. I think both are still patched (PS4 got big update last year, idk abt Xb) and that makes things worse.
Then you have to download it from the good source that won't give you malware etc. (not hard, but many people could fail this part).
On top of that it's dangerous for the console itself, because you can brick it and probably nobody will fix it for you.
Buf ok, let's say you did everything. Now the problem is that while PS4/Xbox architectures are more and more closer to PC... they differ. And they have hardware you can buy and install in your PC, it's different, you don't have any manuals for that and not very popular one, so drivers for that won't be the best quality. Someone created one, but you also have to be sure your distribution compiled them to kernel (I don't know if it's even upstreamed, but even if, it's probably skipped for most compilations).
It's possible, but it's just not worth the effort. If you want to learn little more from technical side about PS4 architecture and making Linux bootable on this I can recommend: https://youtu.be/QMiubC6LdTA[1][2] **(It's not a tutorial how to do it)**
1: https://youtu.be/QMiubC6LdTA
2: https://youtu.be/QMiubC6LdTA
There's nothing here!