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Home Assistant - Deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods, and 32-bit systems
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They've done this once before and walked it back.
Out of that decision and the backlash came the metrics, so they'd be able to make informed decisions before depreciating something.
Last time, I used Core (IIRC, it wasn't even called Core back then) and was quite upset. Before they walked it back, I switched to the OS version and don't really regret it. If their metrics now tell them that core isn't worth supporting, it probably isn't, but I definitely understand being upset about it.
It definitely sucks that the system that's supposed to be about giving users freedom and options is removing some.
ETA: Backups also make this whole thing so much easier now. Back then, backing up and restoring core meant manually copying a bunch of files, but now, it's a completely different and easier experience.