What is a NUC? I know what it is kinda

[Wade_Oram]

I will second the use of DietPi on x86_64 for Roon Server.

The initial install procedure is practically identical to that of ROCK. You do then have to go through a software selection procedure (which is where you select Roon Server to be installed) but it is very easy to follow.

Further, DietPi, being a lightweight Debian based distribution, gives you the option to install other software (e.g. Plex) and gives tools for monitoring system performance which RoonOS does not.

For example, with DietPi running on my NUC11TNHi7 with the DietPi dashboard installed, I can see:

The only caviate to my recomendation relates to the use of Early Access versions of Roon server. The Roon supplied easy install scripts are not compatible with the DietPi default installation of Roon Server and so, in order to change from production and early access (and vice versa) a few hoops have to be jumped through. See:

Roon Server Early Access on DietPi X86

Easier is this (to enable early access): sed -i 's|builds/RoonServer_linuxx64.tar.bz2|builds/earlyaccess/RoonServer_linuxx64.tar.bz2|' /boot/dietpi/dietpi-software systemctl stop roonserver rm -R /opt/roonserver dietpi-software reinstall 154 Respectively (to disable early access): sed -i 's|earlyaccess/RoonServer_linuxx64.tar.bz2|RoonServer_linuxx64.tar.bz2|' /boot/dietpi/dietpi-software systemctl stop roonserver rm -R /opt/roonserver dietpi-software reinstall 154 dietpi-software skips down…