Now it seems that majority of the former OpenELEC developers have jumped onboard the LibreELEC train. Earlier this year some of the developers of OpenELEC felt that the project was not heading to a direction they felt it should be heading so they forked the project as LibreELEC. It will keep itself automatically up-to-date (if you like it to) and everything can be controlled with a standard remote controller. You don’t need to know almost anything about Linux to use it. It’s a minimal Linux distribution that does one thing well: it runs Kodi. OpenELEC project was set up to address many of the issues that arise when bringing a PC into the living room. Best of all, you can get it up and running in just 15 minutes! It’s as easy to use a LibreELEC HTPC as it is to use a cable box. With LibreELEC you don’t need to worry about that. I’ve gotten an angry phone call or two from my wife before when she couldn’t watch her favorite TV series due to automatic upgrade that broke something. Especially if there are other less technically-inclined people using the device.

However, if you have a PC in your livingroom it’s often a bit of a hassle running a full-blown Windows or Linux system. Kodi is a popular open-source media center software that can run on Windows or Linux.

How to install LibreELEC on an Intel NUC and what are the optimal settings? I’ll walk you through!

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