Don't use "builds"
Say what don't use builds?
My build was developed and tweeked on a Linux box.
The current and ever changing build is (43) 3rd party
video addons including the new and awesome Bennu
Programs addons at 27, Music addons at 7,
Video addons 'get more...' list is at 2,416
So my guess is you install each 3rd party video addon
one by one for one windows machine you setup for Kodi
and then you 'backup' the finished install and use 'restore'
for any other windows machine after that?
That's a build.
OK First a build (my opinion) is one done by anyone of these so called gurus on youtube. Like builds that come on Android boxes when you buy them. This is where I tend to lean with those on the Kodi forum about 3rd party software. There are a LOT of dev's out writing addons. There just aren't a lot of GREAT devs out here writing addons. And these days they're at a prime. The days of Lambda and tknorris et al are done. You better be very careful of what you install now as who knows anything about who is writing what we're using now and who knows if your device has become a pawn of a hacker in some nefarious network.
Understand that I was NOT making reference to a "Private" build, like your own personal build/backup.
I DO do each and every install of Kodi one by one. Oh I might reach over to one of my PCs and grab the repos but that's about it. Everyone seems to want something a little different. If you load up a box with a bunch addons that are installed and usable and no one uses them what's the point, you're asking for an issue to arise. A lot of clutter and a much better chance of a problem with one of them messing with a script someplace or Kodi itself. Since I can't make heads or tails from a log file I would never be able to figure out what addon is causing an issue. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) is my way of installing Kodi.
You also need to know that I don't do these installs for PAY. I do them for friends and family. They get the best job *I* can do. Same way when I installed Windows 10 for some of them too. I don't know everything, I learn new stuff everyday, but I know more than they do and I have more computer experience than most of them. So they naturally come to me for problems. Don't mean to sound conceited, that's just the way it is.
So you like what you like. If Ubuntu is your thing that's fine and dandy. I just happen to like Windows. I've been using PCs since MSDOS V3.XX maybe even earlier.
When I backup my installs, I back up each one to my NAS in it's own folder. If I need to restore that device, I just go the NAS and the folder it's in and copy it to the device that needs it after I delete the kodi folder in the roaming folder on that device. Couldn't be any simpler than that.
But we should stop at this point it's taking this thread off topic.
I really didn't mean to flame anyone and if you want to continue this discussion please start a new thread for it.