XBMCBuntu stole my heart
As some who have read this site before might remember, I didn’t have much luck with LinuxMCE as a media center for my home (basically I couldn’t get any functionality working properly. I got a lot of flack for being pissed and not having talked to the devs/asked for support, which I can understand to some degre).
Anyways, I later on installed XBMCBuntu on my media center that was previously running Mythbuntu (MythTV). I semiliked Mythbuntu, but it had some really nagging issues where it lost my remote control settings and some other settings every time i updated those libraries etc. XBMCBuntu however has really grown on me, some of the functionality is just plain awesome in it, and the ease with which I set it up was amazing. Basically, I had the foundations set up, installed and working within 2-3 hours, downloading subtitles is a breeze, the remote control apps works for my phone and both tablets I have and they got some really nifty functionality (pausing videos when i get a call, scroll through lists of my videos directly in the phone, etc).
XBMC also has excellent support for a ton of different plugins, for example I love the video plugins for SVT Play, TED Talk, and so on. So far, I have nothing but the best to say about XBMC, and I’ve used it for 2-3 months now. The only issues I have are connected to my hardware which is behaving rather strangely (unpredictable boot order and turning on the ethernet wakeup interrupt triggers the machine to boot on its own for some reason. Both issues are unrelated to XBMC however, and the hardware is quite old so…).