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I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don't know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It's a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn't more popular/widely used.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

It is fairly easy as for most hardware it is pre configured in a way that makes sense.

Setting it up in a VM is a different story

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (12 children)

In my experience it's because it's finicky as fuck and requires very specific (and often more expensive) router models, and even then it still crashes just as much as a proprietary os router.

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