Regarding home assistant: > Is the best solution we can come up with a bunch of Docker containers running on a custom Linux distro? It's really not that bad w

Regarding home assistant: > Is the best solution we can come up with a bunch of Docker containers running on a custom Linux distro? It's really not that bad when you consider that HassOS has an updater. You don't need to reason about any sort of docker config if you don't want to. A lot of users have no idea what docker is and still get by. It's pretty appliance-like. Additionally, I run hassos in a VM, and that takes away even more of the 'managing a linux distro' aspect. A few years in I did want the control to manage a docker container myself for frigate. I keep that alongside the hassos VM and no issues. So you can even mix and match if you like.