[mythtv-users] What's the deal with Kodi?

[Tom Bishop]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> ...
> > All in all, I find Kodi's user interface to be extremely
> > counter-intuitive in just about every respect.
>
> Kodi, MythTV, AppleTV, SmartTV, Android TV,
> a providers DVR, are all "acquired tastes".  One
> will either love it, hate it, or tolerate it.  Once
> one decides to like a particular approach, all
> others are "wrong".  Trying to convince others
> that their approach is wrong is like trying to
> argue PC vs Mac, iOS vs Android, Ford vs
> Chevy pickups, or the ultimate flame bait,
> vi vs emacs.
>
> We should celebrate that there are choices,
> and each project should learn from the others,
> while not needing to sacrifice the goals and
> priorities of the project(s).  Often the best way
> for that to happen may actually for someone who
> absolutely despises Kodi to find the one thing
> in it that s/he wishes MythTV had, and get it
> done.  And the reverse too(*).
>
> Gary
>
> (*) Often the person able to make the strongest
> case for a position in a debate is someone who
> disagrees with the position.  It strips the biases
> away, and makes people look at things rationally
> rather than emotionally.  If one cannot make a
> strong case for the other side, they have to
> examine if their position has a valid basis.
> _______________________________________________
>

Very well said, I'm just glad we have choices use what you like and great
full that some developers have shared the code. :)
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