[bolmsted]

I'm a long time user of OpenElec on ASUS Chromebox N60 (2995u) and I see recently there has been the move to LibreELEC which I take it is due to more active development and they took the developers to work on LibreELEC. I take it the Kodi development on LibreELEC is more active and you can install pre-releases like Krypton Beta that don't get released for OpenELEC for a while.

So I want to avoid bricking my Chromebox so just want to get the long and short... so I need to install Ubuntu or Gallium on a USB stick and then boot off of that and then I can upgrade from SEABIOS to this new firmware that allows me to run any OS if I want instead and then I can run the Kodi script after that. I take it I can't just boot off of an installer and do a fresh install then?

Can I backup my KODI installation first and restore that later or perhaps better to start off fresh and just keep note of my addons and settings, etc

Does LibreELEC have the same shell level customization/modification that I can do such as doing a NFS/Samba share in the shell, etc

I think I did the dual boot option of ChromeOS and OpenELEC at the time but I haven't dual booted since I installed so may as well just do standalone option.


thanks and sorry for the stupid questions but want the path to least resistance and quick installation.