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Originally Posted by Chigimus
Hmmm... I haven't looked into an RPi muh as I haven't touched Linux anything in nearly 20 years, but hearing that it can support Kodi interests me more to use it as a unified media center/emulator box. How stable is Kodi on the RPi? I haven't used Kodi on PC yet but have been made familiar with how to set it up, the need for repositories/add-ons etc. for it, but never thought of putting it on an RPi and wondering how well it runs on that in comparison to a Windows platform. Not asking for a full how-to, just feedback on stability.
On topic though, has anyone else seen or heard of any newer sightings in terms of restock since it got released and sold out last week?
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Kodi is stable on the RPi and has been for quite some time now. I'm by no means an expert, however, I do run Kodi on about a half dozen devices here, so I'm not sure what that makes me...probably qualified to dispense some advice. So to answer your question Kodi is very mature on RPi, in fact I still run it on a RPi1 model b, which is a little dated now but stable.
If you only want to run Kodi there are stripped down distributions specifically for that one application like OpenElec, LibreElec, OSMc , Xbian..probably more I don't know about. Generally little configuration is required with these.
On the other hand, RetroPie is closer to a full blown OS dedicated to gaming, requires you getting your hands a little dirty with the command line and Kodi is optionally installed as a normal application on top.