I used something like that for a while but I didn’t really use the keypad side in practice and the quality of that remote was kinda crap so the most used buttons (normal remote ones on the front) quickly became unreliable. Also I don’t find the airmouse all that convenient to use.

I replaced it with one of these plus I also have a perfectly normal keyboard and mouse connected to that mini-PC in case I need to directly use it (which is rare since even the homeserver stuff I normally do remotely from a normal Desktop PC via SSH).

Well, in all fairness I still have a keyboard and mouse wired to that setup, though it’s very rare that I use it.

I’m just running Linux with an always on top Kodi on an N100 mini-PC.

Works fine with a wireless remote for the purpose of being a TV Box that I just have on my living room and use in the same way as I would a commercial TV box.

Granted, I also use that as a homeserver (its seriously overpowered to just be a TV Box) but that side of things I manage remotely via SSH.

You don’t really need access to the full desktop to run Linux apps if you just want a TV Box.

By this point in time, after Alderaan and a couple more planets have been blown up, you should probably have figured out that being an Engineer for the Empire’s Death Star makes you one of the baddies even if you’re not the one pressing the red button.