[a5ian300zx]

thanks guys, I already have windows 8.1 license which I can recycle from my laptop.

I would like to have the ability to playback. Iso with full menu of possible and also 3d playback.

I build the hardware to be quite powerful I bought the haswell i5 nuc as it resolves the 24 hz bug and I have 8gb ram and 120gb msata drive to future proof myself.

I like aeon theme, I want to be able to have BBC iplayer, itv player of available. I familiar with Windows and not Linux but heard Linux is more reliable and just works.

the last time I tried xbmc was on version 10 when it did not have hd audio support and had to ticker too much with it to get it work.

So i am after simple solution that can support the above and that boots straight into xbmc without loosing focus etc from my previous experience with xbmc and windows 7.

any advice is always appreciated.

Thanks