Home assistant green - first start and error

For anyone having issues with a new Home Assistant device,
I ask that you please do stick with it, I promise you’ll be able to get it working and by the end you might’ve learned something cool.

I do not own a green but hear similar platforms are having issues,

2024.12 Crashes system for many users
HAOS UI Broken after update to 14.0

In the meantime i’ve been having good luck with a 2 core 4gb ram virtual machine. Any configuration on the vm can be backed up and applied to a working home assistant green later.

Home Assistant is technical but worth it once you have a setup running for a long period of time with no adjustments.