2011-10-18, 20:32
I own a ASRock 330HT that I have been running XBMC Live 10 since it released.
It has been working fine, though I have been dual-booting with Windows 7 to be able to watch some tv shows on the internet (since XBMC lacks a browser).
Though switching from XBMC Live into Windows 7 takes some time. I wrote an addon that reboots with specific option to change the start order temporarily (in grub) so it boots into windows, and then when I reboot in Windows it goes back to the usual order and boots XBMC Live. It works, but I don't feel it is optimal.
So I thought about installing the latest Ubuntu and then installing XBMC and add it as autostart in Ubuntu, then I can just minimize XBMC and open a browser to do my things.
So my question is, what is the pro's and con's with using Ubuntu (11) + XBMC compared to using the Live version?
The thing I am mostly interested in is the performance. As my htpc isn't that powerful (gotta get a new one sooner or later), I still want to be able to play back 10gb blu-ray rips without lag as I can with my Live version
It has been working fine, though I have been dual-booting with Windows 7 to be able to watch some tv shows on the internet (since XBMC lacks a browser).
Though switching from XBMC Live into Windows 7 takes some time. I wrote an addon that reboots with specific option to change the start order temporarily (in grub) so it boots into windows, and then when I reboot in Windows it goes back to the usual order and boots XBMC Live. It works, but I don't feel it is optimal.
So I thought about installing the latest Ubuntu and then installing XBMC and add it as autostart in Ubuntu, then I can just minimize XBMC and open a browser to do my things.
So my question is, what is the pro's and con's with using Ubuntu (11) + XBMC compared to using the Live version?
The thing I am mostly interested in is the performance. As my htpc isn't that powerful (gotta get a new one sooner or later), I still want to be able to play back 10gb blu-ray rips without lag as I can with my Live version