Why spend the extra money for a Nucleus rather than a less expensive desktop computer?

[Geoff_Coupe]

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Roon Optimized Core Kit (previously reported as Roon OS)

@Yoshihiro_Sasaki: You can’t compare it to Volumio. Volumio runs quite a bit of software written by various third parties that don’t know about each other. This thing is Roon only, all throughout. The performance is incredible. Boot in <2 seconds, full update (post-download) in ~30s. Everything is snappy and built from the ground up for Roon. It doesn’t feel like Linux, or any other operating system. It feels like Roon. There is no point in hooking up a keyboard or display – you can’t do anyt…