Ok yes, of course. What else do you run on the NUC?
Many of us run Plex Server, LMS and Roon Extension Manager as well as a few other things that differ between us
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Yes makes sense.
We seem to be a growing in number as well as many of us seemed to move at the beginning of this year having seen performance issues on Roon on Rock.
The Windows 10 end of support will bring more users who want a more flexible solution with some management/monitoring tools
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I run both plex and minimserver on my desktop, off of the same local files, so I am intrigued…
How does performance with extra apps on dietpi look compared to ROCK?
Performance has been good, especially with Turbo enabled in the performance settings.
You are able to control the nice level of each service and also what processors what apps can use (if you want Roon to have most of the server), its quite granular but not in a rocket science way. You can start off easily and build from there.
My original plan was only to get some performance monitoring and a username and password combo added to the Music Share (this annoys me irrationally) .
But from there it moved to Playing multi channel music through HDMI from Roon and Displaying cover art on my TV screen and then I added Plex Server, LMS, DNS server and a few Docker containers. Next I might need a more powerful machine 
@Torben_Rick and @PixelPopper can probably add some more context as the most recent of the converts
My experience is that comparing ROCK and Roon Server on DietPi yeilds no observable differences whatsoever.
Like others I run Plex (but primarily for video - not audio) and Roon Extension Manager. I have a few extra network monitoring tools installed - some installed using dietpi-software and some installed using apt and, finally, I have a docker container that provides a speed test service so that I can monitor network performance.
Not me michael, i’m not a rock user, windows or mac only for me…
Oops sorry I confused you for another friend @SukieInTheGraveyard 
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I forgive you, i’ll be knowledgeable one day 
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Been with Dietpi since before April would never go back now. The lack of monitoring and other things made me move.
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As @Michael_Harris mentioned, I’m new to DietPi. It is lightweight and, so far, solid. It does require a bit of Linux knowledge, more so than ROCK, but there’s plenty of help on this forum.
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Yes. DietPi does require a little linux knowledge. And as you try to do more ambitious things, it might require more and more. However, the very fact that you have the option to do these things is a major advantage.
Most important things that will be encountered at the start can be done using the DietPi scripts, taking away the need for a lot of linux knowledge. But not everything.
The other great thing is that, once familiar with DietPi, it can also be used on Raspberry Pi devices (and many other such low power ARM based SBCs) to create Roon/LMS/NAA/Spotify endpoint devices very cheaply - using exactly the same administration tools. Again, most of this can be done using Ropieee - but DietPi does it with more flexibility at the small cost of needing a little, but not much, more knowledge of linux.
Note: In fact, I came about DietPi from the other direction. I used it on an RPi4 board to create a Roon endpoint long before I started using it as a Roon Server solution.
So for me, DietPi fits where others use both ROCK and Ropieee with more flexibility in both cases.
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I moved from Ropieee to dietpi when ropieee gave up RPI2. (Also changed on RPI3 with the bonus that it could contain the extension manager for roon