Remember back in the early day of the PS3 when you could install a full Linux distribution on your console? Other OS, as this feature would be called, brought something new to consoles that had been mostly unexplored or under implemented (as it was in the PS2), a fully functional desktop environment. Users who installed Linux using the Other OS feature could transform their PS3 systems into a basic home computer complete with web browsing, mouse, keyboard and printer support. In fact I knew a few people for whom this was technically their first computer! In my own experience I used Other OS as a rudimentary file server and stream box as this was the early days of Netflix streaming. Unfortunately, Other OS was never meant for more than productivity tasks as Sony had locked the RSX from being used, which meant there was no hardware acceleration available to run games.