[Matt Devo]

That was an unexpected answer! :O

I was unaware of Kodi being available inside of Steam! I like the idea of a single stream for everything and it looks like Chrome is available inside SteamOS now instead of Iceweasel only, which helps with things like running Netflix or Hulu, etc as well as a few plugins we use. I'm pretty sure I added RAM to the box at the beginning to max it at 4, but that's an easy check/fix. When you ran your test, was there enough overhead on the machine to run Kodi on top of Steam without issues? Could I take it for a testdrive from a bootable stick?

I'm guessing that driver support would still be there for the IR receiver I have plugged in that works great with Openelec/Kodi and harmony remote.

I'll check out the UEFI update as well.

Thanks for your input Matt!

I'm not sure if Kodi is available "inside" Steam by default - I had to set up a shortcut manually but unsure if that's still the case. When I tested, there wasn't any performance penalty from running Kodi with Steam in the background, it was simply an issue of HD audio passthru not working due to PulseAudio or ALSA or their interaction, and so I just set up an OpenELEC/SteamOS dual boot (as this was before LibreELEC)