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Plex used to have a distro that booted straight to Plex and that was it. You could control it using your tv remote if your tv supported HDMI-CEC. I'm not sure if it still exists. I guess it wouldn't be any better than openelec though. 🤷♂️
Could you be more objective about what you want and don't want feature wise? I don't know about other folks but I've never used android tv so I don't know what you mean when you say that's similar to what you want.
Edit: I'm pretty sure the Plex software I was talking about was based on this archived repo, so it likely isn't a modern option https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player
I don't know about a distro, but it looks like they are still maintaining an HTPC app for windows, mac and linux. The linux one looks like it was last updated about 2 weeks ago