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My workplace is giving old mini PCs to the employees. I put a linux distro on that and use it as a media pc. You can get them on ebay or similar for ~30 €, so it's basically the same price as a TVStick. I reccommend getting a bluetooth keyboard as well.
If you want another stick then there's also Roku.
I'll have a look at Roku thank you because it needs to be user friendly for the family.
Roku is headquartered in California. If we're prioritizing user friendliness over location (nothing wrong with this!) I'd go with a Google TV box or something like the Google streamer. Since it's Android based you can (with a little bit of a workaround) change the launcher and ditch the ads. With Roku you're stuck with whatever they give you; and they just "accidentally" tested ads on startup before you even see the home screen.
Stremio with torrentio addon has a simple user experience
Roku is also American though.
Using a browser isn't family friendly enough? :D The only thing that needs fiddling is the setup.
I might think my family are more retarded than they are, I'll test them out on my pc and see how they do. If they do good I might be able to use the raspberry pi someone has suggested.
Roku is the easy way out for sure, even though I (and the other Linux homies) will espouse the Linux way