LibreElec is small, fast and runs smoothly on pretty much any hardware. works fine on my Raspberry Pi zero. It's very easy to use, runs Kodi and has many plugins (such as Youtube) Can use files localy of via shared location boots very fast works with any media type I've tried Open Source

I like that it's open source in that you can customize what you want. However, I hate that it's open source in that if something breaks up stream after you've customized something to work in your environment you get very little (read "NONE") support from the developers since you decided to break their code. I like that it's the follow on evolution of Kodi which was XBMC which was XBOX media Center (yes kids I'm that Old)... I remember having HALO LAN parties in barracks 33612 on Camp Margarita on MCB Camp Pendleton before 9/11 and our G-6 IT Marines would have so much Cat5 strung through out the barracks we would all be online slaying each other and then we'd all be streaming movies. I got nostalgic and thought I give this a go. It's not quite there yet but it made me walk back down memory lane for a week or so.

This is a very lightweight solution to running Kodi. If you are short on RAM, then LibreELEC is your solution. This runs perfectly on a raspberryPi which has very limited RAM. Once installed it runs smooth without any issues.