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Xbox is almost certainly going to be worse than apple for privacy. (Android is worse for sure.)

The AppleTV seems to reduce the telemetry crap to “stuff the streaming platforms do in-app” (e.g. prime video can target ads based on amazon purchases made on other devices). Maybe MS does that for Xbox? They certainly do not for win11.

If you want to do better than that, then the options are either piracy, or buy shiny disks and rip them. Linux is fine for both those paths, since they both involve stripping DRM.

Arguably, the box I pointed you at is better for gaming than the xbox (thanks to steam), but it costs more. I mostly use it for gaming and the appletv for media, fwiw.