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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (self.homeassistant)
submitted 2 months ago by rah to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] rah -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

this is probably a ton of work, for which a purpose-built solution already exists: Docker

LOL Docker isn't a "solution" to the pressure of good engineering.