[DEcosse]

Got my NUC (D54250WYB) today & sorted out a few things I had to work-around:
I'm running XBMC in Linux Mint
Had to use Mint 15 because the latest driver for my Wireless Adapter won't load on Mint 16 (or any kernel >3.10)
But I found there was no sound, although I got video output with no problems
Booted off a live boot version of 16 and the sound was fine in that
Further research suggested that HDMI would not work with Kernel <3.10
However I was able to find a fix:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily
sudo apt update
apt install oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms

Reboot, then go to menu/preferences/sound and now you will find HDMI option to select.

So for anyone having similar problem, there you go.

Mint 16 or Ubuntu 13.10 have this already embedded so no need to add there,

Got all the settings in xbmc figured out & all is working great - I like the Confluence Customizable Mod so far and comfortable with my way around it.

One remaining issue is to sort out the shut-down - it immediately wants to re-start;
I recall seeing something about that (not sure if in here or somewhere else) so I'll get searching on that
Updated to the latest Bios but no difference there
Meanwhile if someone who has been there can point me, that would be great

edit - found this - https://communities.intel.com/thread/47751
I need to study it further - right now I have disabled wake on LAN and it no longer restarts unprompted when shut down.
Needs the power button to restart (which is no big deal for me, but would be nice to have it start off IR)