> About a year or two after install, reboots and power-offs stopped working. The system just hangs instead after printing out a message about USB, and I cannot

> About a year or two after install, reboots and power-offs stopped working. The system just hangs instead after printing out a message about USB, and I cannot figure out for the life of me what's wrong. My initial read here would be that this is where serial port / console redirection is happening. There should be settings in the BiOS you can look at however I don't know how limited PC's are in their options / functionality. >I find the project pretty outdated and behind the times. The UI purposefully obtuse with terrible organization and field names and a lot of missing help text to keep their support/consulting biz strong. pfSense was the same way as well as most projects if you understand the underlying configurations. You can find people saying the same about ubiquiti's interface in this thread as well. In my experience the GUI is to capture the 80% of mostly default configurations. What other firewall/routing software have you looked at in comparison to opnsense? I'm interested in what other features they have? The API interface and IDS functionality was one of the draws for me. >Their release process is wildly unsuitable for production network equipment. A 'major' release is immediately EOL'd as soon as the next major release comes out. Running 20.1 and need to stay on it because 20.2 breaks something or you want to wait for the dust to settle? Too bad. There's no security releases for older major revisions. I mean are you saying this as a paying customer? Free always has its risks and costs. > The devs are sticks in the mud, too - mostly "franco." > wireguard being "insecure" > ARM support? Zero interest in even assisting community efforts I observe this with projects overtime and this usually just adds to the bloat and disorganization because everyone is looking for "their" one-stop solution. I think its useful to consider things from other view points and complexities you may not have insight into. Not that I have any specific insight into this project however, there are other companies that make a lot money off networking gear, firewalls, etc and provide what you are asking for but the price isn't free. I assume most open source projects are "best-effort" unless they have a formal revenue stream or foundation behind them and even then I wouldn't expect any claim to expect features or support (not saying you are, just generally).