Wait a second, what am I missing here? The old version of XBMC had a standalone installer that you could boot off and install direct to the device (Intel NUC in my case) w/o requiring an OS or anything... I mean I'm sure it ran on top of Linux or something but Kodi seems to want me to already have Windows, Android, Linux, etc... I'm missing something here. Maybe I need Kodibuntu now?
edit: shit I was / am using OpenELEC, hence my confusion. I should just go back to bed