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This article and many comments here missess the most important detail: Nobody wanna be a full time SysAdmin. Sure, follow the article and you will get things..

This article and many comments here missess the most important detail: Nobody wanna be a full time SysAdmin. Sure, follow the article and you will get things.....working but will also turn you into a SysAdmin. Homelab is my hobby, CLI aka command line interface is where I spend most of the time playing with my linux containers BUT you do wanna a GUI to manage network stuff. Do you wanna do this right and once?? And trully open-source meaning, you will never have to pay to use it?? 1. OpenWRT: It supports many WiFi6/7 wireless router, it provides you router, wireless, basic firewall, plugins. Set it once and forget. My dumb OpenWRT wireless only access point has been running for years. It used to be my main router, same device. 2. OPNSense: This is like going from an EV to a V12 bi-turbo: It will work out of the box, you change things ONLY if you wanna mess around. Provide your ISP login when installing it and everything works out of the box. My OPNSense baremetal has dozens of firewall rules and what not but from an every day life pov, I do not touch it other than check for updates and neither should you. Good luck troubleshooting network problems via CLI only if you have no idea of what is going on and just followed some article online.

krautburglar 7mo ago
If you know your platform, it is set-it-and-forget-it. I use CLI OpenBSD as a router, and it has been far less trouble than any of the ready-made GUI ones I have ever used. The ready-mades are brutally under-powered, have snowflake UIs that have to be re-learned on each revision, and have very short firmware update windows, so have to be replaced (and the UI re-learned) every few years. While with my OpenBSD thing, it's just `sysupgrade` then `pkg_add -u` -- for almost a decade now. But yeah, if you're just copy-pasting without understanding, OPNSense is far better.

krautburglar 7mo ago

If you know your platform, it is set-it-and-forget-it. I use CLI OpenBSD as a router, and it has been far less trouble than any of the ready-made GUI ones I have ever used. The ready-mades are brutally under-powered, have snowflake UIs that have to be re-learned on each revision, and have very short firmware update windows, so have to be replaced (and the UI re-learned) every few years. While with my OpenBSD thing, it's just `sysupgrade` then `pkg_add -u` -- for almost a decade now. But yeah, if you're just copy-pasting without understanding, OPNSense is far better.