But why?!

[Sa1tama]

Hello everyone! I am new to PCMR

and consoles as well...

So I was wondering why people don't

install console OS on PC_s.

Note that I have never owned console or 

a PC before I subscribed to LTT.

And of course I bought an old system and a new CPU!

[mariushm]

Because it's pretty much not possible.

 

Consoles have custom processors and the operating systems are very customized and optimized for those processors and the components used in consoles, they wouldn't work well on PCs and wouldn't have the drivers for regular computer parts.

 

[DocSwag]

Because you can't.

[Sa1tama]

Just now, mariushm said:

Because it's pretty much not possible.

 

Consoles have custom processors and the operating systems are very customized and optimized for those processors and the components used in consoles, they wouldn't work well on PCs and wouldn't have the drivers for regular computer parts.

 

So... Is it possible to create a console

 like OS that could be insalled and optimized on PC.

 

[mariushm]

Just now, _SAITAMA_ said:

So... Is it possible to create a console

 like OS that could be insalled and optimized on PC.

 

Get Windows 10 . Remove all built in drivers except the components you have in the pc. Remove Windows Explorer and the start button and everything that would allow a user to launch and install various applications and put a single application on autorun which creates the console like interface (think Steam in full screen mode or something like that)

Now get you components out of the case and shove them in a console footprint and you got yourself a console.

 

Xbox OS is a very customized Windows version, with a lot of restrictions and limitations and a single application which creates the UI (user interface). What you see on the screen when you start your console is just an application... from the console's perspective it's as if it runs a game which makes nice user interface.

 

[Sa1tama]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

Get Windows 10 . Remove all built in drivers except the components you have in the pc. Remove Windows Explorer and the start button and everything that would allow a user to launch and install various applications and put a single application on autorun which creates the console like interface (think Steam in full screen mode or something like that)

Now get you components out of the case and shove them in a console footprint and you got yourself a console.

 

Xbox OS is a very customized Windows version, with a lot of restrictions and limitations and a single application which creates the UI (user interface). What you see on the screen when you start your console is just an application... from the console's perspective it's as if it runs a game which makes nice user interface.

 

Thanks!

[TetraSky]

4 minutes ago, _SAITAMA_ said:

So... Is it possible to create a console

 like OS that could be insalled and optimized on PC.

Sure, if someone make said OS and supply a very specific set of hardware for said OS, it is entirely possible to get a console-like OS for PC. But at that point it'd be "another console" and not a "PC".

It would also need the support of developers, which it's unlikely to get on release, meaning the idea is dead in the water.

 

Until then, you're stuck with emulators or the usual PC games.

[Underi]

There are no "console OS" except for like Ouya, because it is an android OS, which is open-source. PS4 and Xbox use operating systems designed for their hardware. Also if the OS became public, people would instantly start reverse engineering the shit out of it and security would decrease and cheating would increase. Windows 10 and emulators are your best bet if you want to game on PC and play console games, although there aren't emulators for the newest consoles.

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, _SAITAMA_ said:

So... Is it possible to create a console

 like OS that could be insalled and optimized on PC.

Well, there's Apple. Console of PC world. With OS that is optimized for just that hardware. And with limited options to install custom software.

 

But with other console OS', you can't get them running on normal PC hardware because of missing drivers. Even linux distros have better driver support. And you can't get Windows or other OS to run on consoles as they don't have BIOS or any way to set alternative boot. They would just refuse hard drives with non-compatible OS. Exception being first patch of PS3's which had option to install linux as alternative OS. Sony did plug that hole fairly quickly. Main issue why you can't run Windows on consoles is that they have used PowerPC CPUs and Windows doesn't run on those. At all.