OpenELEC is the opposite of Raspbmc for the most of the time you use it. While other products are so much lightweight but less extensible because they are much more optimized, Raspbmc includes an heavy bunch of features to please the user and assemble a fantastic user experience for a media center, the user interface and the processes will result slow sometimes, because all of this stuff has to confront itself with a complicated system located underneath. Having automatic upgrades and an available out of the box plugin system is only possible if you have a full-featured Linux operating system as your core. And, ladies and gentlemen, it is totally automatic! This is so useful, because while I have my meal, I can upgrade my smart TV having my PC doing other things such a render (I know: modern machines have para-multitasking, but when I must do one heavy-computational activity, I prefer that job to take all my CPU).
#Linux based media center os update#
We can see how Raspbmc is powerful from its automatic upgrade tool: from this simple software we can update our system directly, without having to pull the SD card off, without having it connected to our machine. Video and music streaming work out of the box, and if you have a DLNA-capable NAS or something similar, you will be able to stream your files directly from your favorite storage.
Raspbmc has an amazing plugin system that comes with XBMC, which can be accessed right from the first boot. I hope you to wait for the complete review and for my cents about OpenELEC, but Raspbmc has astonished me in a way: this distro has indeed a dedicated installer, and once one starts using it, this Linux distribution shows all its potential.
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