I’d like to be able to do all I normally do in a venv (modify system files) so I need to get my feet wet before making the switch.
In your post you had this directory as the config directory, do the HA core files also exist here? I am talking about files like this: core/homeassistant/components/neato at dev · home-assistant/core · GitHub and also the python libraries that get installed. Sometimes gotta dig deep to fix something real quick so I normally edit those.