Roon and my next step

[Geoff_Coupe]

I am sort of sensing the Nuceus not really meant to be a one box solution, and ideally it’s to be used with a music player .

I think perhaps you might want to read the Whitepaper:

The shift to small, single-purpose devices (wonkish)

I realize that this is just a guess, but it’s pretty far from the truth. There are fundamental and structural differences between general purpose linux distributions like Debian and RoonOS. You might find the Nucleus White Paper interesting.