I was thinking it would be nice to have for backups, but maybe even going as far as mounting ~/home to be able to run from multiple machines. I’m really asking where to get started looking without crashing into marketing department nonsense and search engine steering bias.

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      OpenWRT support on GL.inet devices seems to be complex. The following is my understanding of the situation.

      GL.inet have an OpenWRT fork on GitHub https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt This is what is installed on GL.inet devices.

      The OpenWRT developers in due course try to work out how to port mainline OpenWRT onto OpenWRT onto GL.inet devices.

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        Yes. My experience with the gl-inet device I have was that initially the fork was good enough and when the company didn’t update it much anymore, it was very easy to reflash the device to a main-line OpenWRT version. It’s now working great with the latest mainline version despite being quite old already.

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          This seems to have worked for the older devices, but I don’t know about the newer devices, for example far as I can tell the “Flint” doesn’t have mainline support despite being over a year old.