2009-07-27, 09:24
Quote:How is it with system resources? Does a full Ubuntu Desktop as background OS eat alot of the system resources?
I don't run on top of the the desktop, when I use the xbmc session it runs on top of the GDM only, not the gnome desktop. I am not sure how much resources the GDM is using but memory shouldn't be a problem on the ION 330. I am guessing that boot time is the biggest diff but I haven't done a benchmark.
The advantage with regards to spotify is that you can start the desktop and get spotify to work fine before you try to get it to launch from xbmc.
(If think you need to use a thing called "launcer" to start it from xbmc without desktop)