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VortexBox is a NAS. It's used for storing media. It will auto rip CDs for you and do other media storage functions. If you want a player use XBMC. It runs on any platform and will play anything.

What do you want to use your NAS for? Have you taken a look at VortexBox? If you want to use your NAS for a media server that's the Linux distro you should use.

The best way to run VortexBox in widows is in a vmware session. But it's really designed to tun an old PC into a NAS. Run widows on your desktop then turn an old PC into a VortexBox. An old PC is way more powerful than the NAS boxes they are selling now and it's a lot cheaper. You don't need to know Linux to run VortexBox it's sets everything up for you. You can connect to it from your windows machine. As a side note VortexBox does not run on XBOX although it makes a great backend server for XBOX Media Center (XBMC). Hope this helps!