The Xbox is a minor pain in the ass to softmod, but once you're done, it's easy street. The thing is basically a Celeron PC. PROTIP: When you're at the non-MS dashboard and are in the process of cloning your drive onto a bigger one, you don't need to rapidly hot-swap while whatever-nix is booting. Just swap the cable from the DVD drive to the new hard drive, THEN start the process, so the bootloader doesn't freak out. I noticed I had to use a 1st party controller to do that, as my Pelican pad was ignored by whatever Linux system was handling the drive management.