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Users / Re: Will Linux MCE be too complicated for me?

« on: June 08, 2009, 08:32:54 am »

Thanks guys!
I installed XBMC with the MediaStream skin and I was totally blown away. It's totally awesome!
I think I'll stick with this one - it seems to be stable and full of good features, not to mention that it's sooo sexy too!!

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Users / Re: Will Linux MCE be too complicated for me?

« on: June 06, 2009, 12:56:30 pm »

Thank you so much guys!
I'll go and check out MythTV & Mythbuntu. I've heard of these but I just assumed they were for watching TV - something I dont need with this PC!

Thanks again!

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Users / Re: Will Linux MCE be too complicated for me?

« on: June 06, 2009, 09:11:56 am »

Thanks guys!
I really dont have anything else to connect to! I have just one PC (the HTPC) and a laptop that I use for work (I cant mess with it!) so I don't have lots of stuff that I can connect to. All I really want is some way of listening to music and watching media etc.
I'm not sure what an "MD" is or what an "NIC" card is. I'm sorry about being so ignorant about this - I'm pretty new to anything Linux!.

If this is going to be too much for such a simple task, can you suggest anything else that will be simple and will just work - ie, I dont want to have to mess with it because I wont know what I'm doing!!

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Users / Will Linux MCE be too complicated for me?

« on: June 06, 2009, 08:02:58 am »

After having grown tired of the Windows Media Centre battle, I was toying around with trying the Lixux MCE but I just want to use it on one PC, in one room for just playing media (pix, music, movies, home videos). I have a HTPC with a Windows MCE remote control. I dont want to control anything else or automate anything.
The PC has a Intel 915 chipset / P4 / 1GB ram / Addon Tech wireless USB stick (with no Linux drivers).
Am I going to have a lot of problems getting Linux MCE to run? Id like to use it but if it's going to give me a headache, I'd rather stick with the headache I'm familiar with! (Win MCE).

Any help / comments would be appreciated.