[arokh]

The HDMI 1.4 port can handle 4k at 30fps, and the displayport can do it at 60fps. 60fps is only useful if you're gaming, which you shouldn't be doing with a NUC anyway. The advantage of windows is the ability to play Bluray off a disc or Netflix in SuperHD (requires Win8). Linux can do everything else.

XBMC can play bluray off discs, no? You can use Pipelight to watch Netflix in SuperHD on Linux btw.

@sickpuppy

Baytrail NUC's will have Intel AMT which lets you use VNC even during BIOS setup. Previous gen. NUC with Ivy Bridge has this as well, but it didn't do perfect 24p and no infrared.

Anyway, sounds like you want features of a more fully fledged Linux distro. Personally I recommend a rolling distribution to get the latest driver stack and my distro of choice is Arch Linux. If you don't want to spend any time setting everything up just go for OpenELEC and accept the limitations