[zaphod24]

This is the thing, I am a Pi user. OE will never (ever) be my choice. If OSMC didn´t exist I would run xBian. I want to actually be able to use my Pi and OE does not allow me.
When I first got my Pi some years ago I installed OE since it sounded as the official Kodi OS in here. After a couple of days I installed Raspbian instead and dropped Kodi, then dusted off my ATV2 to run Kodi as OE killed my Pi experience. It´s just to locked down and it is simply not for me no matter what hardware I use.
If OE or Android was the only choice; I would simply not use Kodi, that´s a fact.

So here is another area where I am a confused about the Vero specifically and OSMC in general. The idea, at least on the getvero.tv site, is that OSMC will bring Kodi to the non-technical masses. I used raspBMC and now I've tried OSMC on my Cubox-i2. I'm not sure I understand the OSMC approach to updates...

I did some updating in OSMC last night which seems to use apt behind the scenes to update specific packages with new versions. Nothing wrong with that, but now let's contrast to my experience with OpenELEC. I have an RPi2 and I'm running the new almost every day Milhouse test images for Kodi 15. Updating means downloading the latest test image and copying it to the .update folder and then rebooting. If something goes terribly wrong or that particular day's test image is just wonky, no problem... Just copy the previously working image back to the .update folder again and reboot. There is also an option to backup your Kodi settings to a tar file for the case that the new test image really messes things up (and I copy these to my desktop from time to time). I think OSMC will have a similar backup process at some point, though for now (I could be mistaken) it looks like they just advise you to backup the .kodi folder and maybe something else, which is fair enough.

What is the undo process though, if a particular update borks your OSMC or makes video playback worse? Even if you dd the original install image, when you do some updates you'll possibly be back in the same boat again. Perhaps updated package issues/bugs don't occur often or are corrected quickly with a newer package, but... I wouldn't want to have to wait for a package fix. I prefer being able to roll back to the previous working version.

Don't get me wrong, I actually prefer the OSMC/Debian way of updates or additional package installs for my desktop Linux system where I might only want to update certain packages at any given time or install something completely new. For a "it should just work" Kodi media center though, I prefer the OpenELEC approach. There are downsides... If there is not a Kodi add-on you can install to add some functionality then you won't get it unless it is added to the OpenELEC base image. On the RPi, case in point, is something like RetroPIE. Adding additional packages is something you can do with Geexbox or OSMC that you can't do with OpenELEC since the system image is fixed. I can live with that. If I want to use RetroPIE to play old video games, I'll make another SD card for that purpose and maybe even buy another RPi2 specifically for that since they're so inexpensive.