LibreELEC

Reader supplied reviews for LibreELEC Average rating 9.3 from 10 review(s) What are your thoughts on LibreELEC? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 12.0.011.0.410.0.49.2.68.2.58.0.2 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 11.0.4 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-04-01 Votes: 9 I've had an endless stream of problems with the Raspberry PI5 due to the fact that they don't seem to care about X11 support and Wayland really just isn't quite polished yet. This is one of few distros that I actually got to run on the PI5 and it runs really well -- the video performance is quite good and the PI5 doesn't get too hot (an ongoing problem, in my experience). I had purchased the PI5 as a low-resource desktop computer. But, I had so much trouble getting other distros to work on it (even the Raspberry PI OS), that I was relieved when this worked so well. (At least I can use it for something!) I haven't had it freeze or glitch yet. It can be a bit sluggish to start, even with 8GB of RAM -- I'm not all that happy about that. I wish the splash screen at the start were easier to tweak. I did find some directions on it, but it seemed a bit too involved for me to get into at the moment. Overall, I've been quite happy with LibreELEC. It really gave me the smoothest performance with the PI5 so far (and I tried pretty much everything out there). I think it'll make a decent home entertainment center. It has more options than OSMC (it was easier to add themes from other repositories, for example) and smoother performance than using Kodi on Raspberry PI OS (I had numerous issues with that, even on an older, less-buggy, more X11-compatible PI4B). If you're using a PI5 and have gotten to the tear-your-hair-out phase of hardware-software incompatibility, this is a much better option than tossing it out the window, running it over with your car, or using it as a paperweight. (I honestly wouldn't blame anyone who resorted to those other options, though.) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 11.0.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-10-31 Votes: 15 It's the preferred option for x86, and I have some older systems with nvidia cards, so LE is ideal. There's a great wiki and forum, and questions get answered. Overall two thumbs up! If you have an older systems with nvidia, look for the x86 legacy build. Overall I'm very pleased with LE. I've used different versions as well as tried some of the nightly builds. I have seen some wireless networking card issues on older version. But those issues are due to mostly the underlying Linux kernel, not LE. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 11.0.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-04-12 Votes: 8 I am using it on a Raspberry pi 400 since 2021. No major issues noticed. Works better than an old X86 system. Various plugins are helpful to meet many needs. Really stable and updates are available regularly. Videos up to 1080p are playing smoothly. You can share your media files through samba server. I am using Netflix, Prime video, Hotstar, Spotify etc. with the help of Kodi plugins. Audio quality is excellent when using HDMI Pass through. You can use this OS to convert small devices with little power consumption, to Multimedia players. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 10 reader reviews of LibreELEC...