• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Not visually, but under the hood it is Windows. Windows 2000 in the case of the Xbox and Xbox 360, Windows 8 (and later Windows 10) in the case of the Xbox One, One X & S, and Series X & S. Kernels, drivers, APIs, etc. are all shared with the Windows codebase.

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        18 days ago

        That’s like saying Android is Linux “under the hood”. No. They share almost nothing.

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          18 days ago

          Very much not true. Accounts from the development team call the dev process “fork and run;” meaning, they made a fork of the operating system. Yes, it diverged over time, but part of the reason that a Windows port of an Xbox game is so much easier is that they’re fundamentally the same OS.

          And Android is Linux under the hood. They’ve committed code back to the Linux branch and maintained alignment with the LTS kernel since the start, and even the Linux Foundation calls Android a distro.