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Hi!

I've read through this entire post now and picked up alot of good information, but I do have one question that I am having trouble finding an answer to.
I bought this NUC to replace my mediaplayer(s) (haven't found any player good enough to replace the needs I got from my noicy original Xbox with XBMC witch got put away around 6 years ago), I want to go back to XBMC!

When I ordered the NUC, I quickly read about XBMCbuntu and thought that would be the installation for me (the sole purpose for this unit is to run XBMC), but when I read this topic I see many of you use the OpenELEC installation.

So, my question (it is accually a bit off-topic, but it is on a NUC! ): What is the main differences between a XBMCbuntu installation compared with an OpenELEC installation?
Is there put so much extra work into the OpenELEC that it should be better?

And while I am writing a post here, I do need a remote to go with the unit, does anyone have any to recommend?

Thanks
//IB

The short and sweet answer is;

OE is a very striped down linux install with XBMC preinstalled and configured to run. Its very small, very minimal, and usually works really well, even off a decent flash drive. Its very appliance like. It ONLY runs XBMC.

XBMCbuntu is the actual linux distro, just tailored to run XBMC. You can still (i assume) do all sorts of other things that linux allows (web browser for example) outside of xbmc, i think its just configured to boot and start xbmc for you.