[jillyboel3]

I've been running home assistant in docker for years. Just the `homeassistant/home-assistant` image. Don't need anything more. Best I can tell is that the supervisor is for people who just wanted a managed home assistant in a box setup at which point it's fair for the software to take over the system.

[traverseda]

Supervisor is more or less required for some pretty critical add-ons.

[XorNot]

Such as? Only one that comes to mind is ESPHome, and I run that separately just fine.

[dzikimarian]

I have HA install in container for a few years - not sure what's "critical addon". Some are helpful, but they're easy to run independently.