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Slightly offtopic, what is considered the best RPI distro for xmbc?
by Touche 13y ago
Slightly offtopic, what is considered the best RPI distro for xmbc?
- kyriakos 13y agoI tried both Raspbmc and OpenElec. I didn't see a significant difference in performance. Using Raspbmc now. Unless they made some significant changes to OpenElec the past 3-4 months they are more or less the same.
- colinramsay 13y agoI pretty much did the same, I started with OpenElec because my pi shipped with it, changed to raspbmc because I liked the fact it was debian-based. There really doesn't seem to be much performance difference.
- Sarkie 13y agoHaving tried them all. I went with XBian in the end, their latest updated made it faster imo.
- steeve 13y agoI myself am on OpenELEC, works nice
- johnchristopher 13y agoI tried the three main XBMC distro: raspbmc, openelec and raspbian. I early dismissed raspbian because of the lack of updates. I liked raspbmc because it's a debian and it's easy to add more features to the PI but I dislike and used to fear the monthly update. It would often break my installation (the dreaded endless reboot loop). I like openelec. It feels lighter but it's hard to add anything to it because it's a custom-tailored linux distribution at its core. Can't see any differences between the three of them xbmc-feature wise. Most kinks (audio gap when playing songs, etc.) have been ironed out now. I now use raspbmc with auto-update turned off.
- ChrisClark 13y agoI'll just throw my vote in for OpenElec. But by the replies you've already gotten, there really doesn't seem to be a clear winner. I actually have two RPIs, Raspbmc seems to corrupt more on one of them. I stuck with OpenElec because it works great on both. In fact, to prevent corruption of the SD card, I followed a tutorial and have the data on a USB stick, so the SD card just holds the system, only gets written to on a system update.