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  • They already pay attention to deployment and support several methods. Sure it's not the method you have in mind. But the world doesn't specifically revolve around you.

    It's not my method. Writing software with distributions in mind is the standard in free software development.

    It's just not easy.

    Indeed. That's why many engineers don't bother. Especially poor engineers.

  • You should ask this to your favourite distro packagers, not to the home assistant developers.

    I disagree. The Home Assistant developers are the ones who chose to create an OS. They could have chosen to create distro packages instead, or at least software which is amenable to being packaged by distros.

    obsolete

    What does that mean in the context of Home Assistant?

  • What do you mean with "Operating System"?

    If I go to

    https://www.home-assistant.io/

    and click on "Installation", ignoring the custom Home Assistant hardware, the first relevant section is "DIY with Raspberry Pi" whose tutorial has a section "Install Home Assistant Operating System".

    The second relevant section of the Installation page is "Install on other hardware" with a paragraph whose second sentence is "The Home Assistant Operating System allows you to install Home Assistant on these devices even if you have little to no Linux experience."

  • all the add-ons and extra user stuff

    You're hand-waving the answer to my question :-) What add-ons and extra user stuff require Home Assistant to be an OS?

    If you did all that as a package install, you would complain about all the dependancies and if you didnt install the right version of something Home Assistant might not work at all

    That's not how packages work. The packagers take care of all that. That's the point.

  • There's a gay Vulcan character in the New Frontier book series (U.S.S. Excalibur). From what I recall, there were no social issues but the guy's father disapproved due to "a waste of good genetic material" :-)

  • No. Unfortunately Tricky Dicky's vote-winning "war on drugs" put paid to what used to be referred to as "the British system" where GPs could prescribe substances to those suffering with addiction in order to remove the pressure (on the addict as well as society as a whole) of acquiring the substance. Alas.

  • at the scale of the current riots and violence

    You never mentioned scale. You've introduced a new concept. You're shifting the goal posts.

    What other comparison is there? suggest a different comparison

    Why is making a comparison important?