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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (feddit.uk)
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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's most often installed as HAOS, which is a dedicated operating system that just runs Home Assistant. That is how anyone installing it on say, a Raspberry Pi, is likely to do it.

Home Assistant as a project is far more popular than every single other consumer focused server and as such it is often the first home server (and sometimes only) that many consumers will experience.