Hi all, I’m jumping ship from SmartThings,
I’m a linux user for ~20 years …
I just bough myself a Intel NUC I7 as Home Assistant Server …
My question is what would be the best usage of the hardware …
install HA using the NUC build image from the download page or setup a fresh Debian 10 build and then install HA on top of that as some seem to do ?
With a machine like that, you can do much more than run HA. The best way to utilize the machine fully would be to run Proxmox, have HA OS in a VM and then you are free to run other Linux based OS to do whatever else you like, without interfering with HA, or running an unsupported installation of HA.