Which way to go - NUC - Home Assistant

Look in Community Guides. It contains detailed instructions for installing Home Assistant various ways. Community member kanga_who has published several detailed guides. There’s also the official documentation as well.

If you plan to use an Intel NUC your main installation choices are:

  • Home Assistant OS disk-image for a NUC
  • Home Assistant Supervised, or Home Assistant Container (Container doesn’t support Home Assistant’s Add-Ons), on Debian (the only officially supported Linux distro)
  • Proxmox with Home Assistant OS in a VM

Also, here’s a comparison of the four main installation methods: