### Method #1: HAOS directly on Hardware Standard -> SD Card -> Raspberry Pi (or whatever)-> off we go ### Method #2: Virtualized on [[Proxmox]] This is my preferred way now, as it is more convenient to backup, performance is good (or maybe even better than baremetal?) Using the helper scripts makes it so much easier: https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#home-assistant-os-vm