Hello, Currently, I'm using libreelec as distribution for the HTPC in my home cinema. It does its job very good, but is inflexible. For example, I would like to use the same computer as a steam machine or to play other games using wine or, of course, native linux games which is not possible witch libreelec.
To do that, I would like to use Debian. I know, use and administer Debian machines since potato and I think its flexibility is great. In fact, I only used libreelec because it had a driver for the quite new nvidia graphics card and Debian didn't - at least not in last summer. Now I've seen that Debian supports my graphics card and I would like to start my HTPC/Gaming PC from scratch. What I would like to have: - Very quick (and maybe beautiful, for the WAF ;) ) start up. - No surplus services. - Some minimal window manager - Boot to Kodi (or Steam) and easy switch to the other. I know that Linux is not the optimal gaming OS. Never mind. There is a good bit idealism involved :) Now, I could get this running, but I never installed a Debian machine with focus on the first two items. I hope to get your help and advice especially on the quick and lean start up. Any further Ideas are greatly appreciated ;) As I said, some amount of Idealism is involved. So advice like "use windows" or maybe "use another Linux distribution" will not be very helpful. Oh, by the way: the hardware is more or less fixed for now, and it is old (except for the SSD and the Graphics card). So no monster performance for the games, but it does the HTPC job excellently. But I will upgrade the machine in the future. Yet, I think the exact hardware spec is not so important for this topic... Let's see, how far we get and thanks for your input! cu -- Markus Grunwald http://www.the-grue.de/~markus/markus_grunwald.gpg
