For the last year or so my dedicated media box has been running MediaPortal on Windows. It's been a good little setup all in all, but using Windows always bugs me.

In the last week the harddisk on the box popped and I had to replace it so I thought I'd give MythTV and Mythbuntu a shot.

First of all I'd like to say that Mythbuntu 8.10 is a great little package and it does vastly simplify the process of setting up MythTV.

However once everything was set up I found MythTV to be clunky, uncomfortable to use, buggy and altogether a little disappointing. All in all MediaPortal is a superior product.

So now I'm stuck with the decision;
Shit OS but good Media centre
or Good OS but shit Media cetre

I think ill go with the former :-(