I used to have HA in raspberry but then decided to take something more powerful and combine it with media share. So bought Intel NUC and not being familiar with Linux, I only managed to run HA in docker on Ubuntu 16.04 desktop version. BUT I don’t feel comfortable with that. If anything goes wrong I have no idea what to do.
So I would prefer installing HA in a more used friendly way and use the second HDD that I have in the NUC, as file/media share.
I know something is changing with Debian etc but I didn’t understand exactly what.
I think most run HA as virtual machine or something similar on more powerful machines, leaving the rest of the resources up to you as you wish to use them.
Just my thoughts on why I don’t see this as an issue.
On the topic of a more user friendly module it’d be crazy in the far future if HA is just a Windows App or something like that.
That’d really break the cost of entry for every day PC users.
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I wouldn’t run anything on windows if I wanted reliability.
Agreed but it’d get people in the door when market saturation is the goal.
Not now obviously.
I think stability is more important than market saturation.
Before running HA on my rpi for a year, I`m now running my HA as a VM in Windows on a 2820fykh NUC (7.5 W!!) of 4/5 years old for the last 6 months. Its a shared system which allows the HA VM 1GB, leaving the rest of 8GB available as Kodi machine in the living room. Only when I do a host system reboot it affects watching TV 
Other than that its running fine: I did not notice any differences in reliability.
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Back to the op’s post. Use proxmox and run your file server on a different VM.
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OP, maybe I’m missing it - how does this falls under the “What the heck” guidelines?
What the heck, why am I required to do nothing else with this grunty NUC?
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