[Mancuser]

i would agreee with gfisher personally. As a convert this year from windows I have found Xubuntu to be the best lightweight distro. This does allow a more complete, user friendly experience with the ability to boot straight to kodi without any other interference. However, depending on your knowledge of linux, you will most likely need to upgrade your kernel to a new kernel after installing linux and probably install an updated xserver-xorg file if you use xubuntu 15.04. I prefer 15.04 because following the above simple steps offer perfect video playback using my ancient intel cpu. I would also recomend using the latest release candidate of Isengard.

Also, as a convert, I can say that the above simple steps can be tricky if you have zero linux experience.

And I'm sure that the boys in the lab here can help with your reciever.

Also, I would like to point out that Fritsch here helped me out enormously (taught me to compile for a start) and i'm sure you won't regret the change to linux at all. I miss nothing from windows now.