[Pajoe]

I understand, Ximae . I do have some experience with linux, but not a guru in any way whatsoever. I started using it after it became too difficult to get drivers for OS/2 Warp but really did not enjoy using it until the early boxed sets of Suse and later switched to Ubuntu variations somewhere around version 6 ? Not sure, my memory is not as good these days.

Our main media player is a Chromebox running LibereElec, but I also have a couple RPI's, with one Rpi2 running Libreelec. From what I can tell, LibreElec is a scaled down linux, just enough to run kodi. I am far from an expert but would guess that if you already have a good linux machine it will run Kodi just as well.

Personally, I prefer the set top boxes, also like having a few drives attached to the Chromebox as it works as a pretty good media server, maybe not as good as my regular server that uses NFS, I also have an old AIOS HD media player on the network that I only use the internal drive for TV media storage, it's good enough for that quality, prefer to keep the bluray stuff on the nfs server. It's really mess of junk thrown together but for the most part works.