[johnjohn22]

True that, and I for the most part agree on that policy. But I feel like I am a very light user of my NAS, and seeing that my NAS is super terribly spec'd, I thought a good NUC could easily handle it in the background.

I'd like to have just one device to keep things more simple, save money on the power bill etc :-)

but you're not making it simpler, you're making it way more complex by trying to have one box do 2 completely different things. Get a S905 running LibreELEC for playback, and an (older) i3 NUC for your NAS duties. Or, if you really want one device, and are OK running Windows, then a KBL NUC should fit the bill.

Alright I went ahead and picked up the new NUC7i5BNH, actually it just got released here and arrived in the shop, the same exact day I picked it up. I put 1x8 GB RAM in there, just to leave the option open to double. And I put a 250 GB M2 Samsung Evo SSD and a 500 GB Toshiba 2.5" SSD in there. So I gotta a pretty sweet box now I guess.

I installed Windows 10, updates everything, including the HDMI drivers, and decided to try out ubuntu. I can confirm what you also wrote, no HD audio pass through in Linux. Everything else works great though. In Windows 10 everything works thus far.

I experience extremely quick boot times. Actually you are probably right that the time to post the bios is probably what takes the longest. But still we are about 15 seconds for a cold boot till I can use my desktop. To me that is pretty damn good. But I haven't owned a pc for years.

Anywho, do you feel like the Linux passthrough crap is going to be sorted? Only reason I want to use Linux is to be able to run Hyperion for my home built ambilight. I might be able to do something else with that part of my setup then, cause it seems Windows 10 works pretty well otherwise.