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[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=28492115#p28492115:qlgzsnzx said:

NeoMorpheus[/url]":qlgzsnzx]Lovely device.
Need a drive wipe and install Linux and Kodi or just OpenELEC.

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Why bother? I've got a quad core z3736 Atom box with just 2GB of ram and Kodi is snappy on it running on top of Windows. Seems like a lot of trouble for no gain on a dedicated box.

Hide the taskbar during the second you see the desktop, boot directly into Kodi, and you'll never even know what's underneath. The Windows overhead is unnoticeable...this isn't a Raspberry Pi.

I'm going to get one of these for my Mom.

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The other side of that is that Windows brings little to the table here. At best it's invisible and at worst it's a headache to maintain due to Microsoft's never ending trail of security problems. It's Windows that's a lot of trouble for this kind of application, not Linux.

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What maintenance? It's not that hard to enable the auto-update in Windows. Also, it's not like Linux frees you from security bugs and updates (unless you don't care about security). As someone who have been using Linux for 20+ years for work, I can tell you I've had way more headache with Linux than Windows, most often with driver issues with new hardwares.

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