mfat

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As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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.

mfat,

You can run it on a raspberry pi or an x86 mini pc.

mfat,

That’s exactly what I do. You can keep your ISP router and hook up your openwrt router to one of its lan ports and have two wifi networks.

mfat,

Nowadays you can easily run it on a single board computer like the raspberry pi or any x86 mini pcs. You just need to hook up an access point for Wi-Fi which doesn’t need to be able to run openwrt.

mfat,

Best thing to do is to get a fanless mini PC with multiple ethernet ports and hook up a decent access point to one of those ports.

mfat,

It’s a joy to use on x86 hardware though. You can run as many services as you want.

mfat,

You can run a VPN like wire guard, ad blockers such as Adguard Home or pihole or even media servers on your openwrt router.

mfat,

Run it on a cheap fanless x86 box instead.

mfat,

Not sure how unusual it is but I run openwrt x86 on a fanless Asus mini PC as my main router at home.

mfat,

Yes I do. I have hooked up my x86 openwrt router to my fiber modem.

mfat,

That’s very interesting. I thought that intel Wi-Fi cards can’t do AP mode anywhere. I had no luck on ubuntu and openwrt. Didn’t know Windows could help. I’ll try to build a Windows VM with passthrough.

mfat,

He has a retro vibe going on which i like a lot. He reminds me of joy of old-school computing in 2000s.

mfat,

Shotcut helped me get rid of the heavy, bloated Premiere Pro.

mfat,

I haven’t. Too much for my needs.

mfat,

I plan to give it a try.

mfat,

www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htmNot open source but free.

mfat,

Is there a list of features? Can anyone tell me why I should switch to this from fedora workstation as a normal home user?

mfat,

A couple of friends recommended Dell XPS. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

mfat,

Thanks much!

Please recommend me some blogs about Linux or FOSS or similar that you follow through RSS.

Hi. I have a category Little Tech Blogs in my rss reader where I put those cool niche blogs mostly about Linux, FOSS, programming, etc… Many of them I found by articles linked in this community, so I was wondering if you guys know about more blogs like that. By little I mean it’s run by one person or a small group of people,...

mfat,

Omgubuntu.co.uk

mfat,

Loved this one!

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    You can’t use icloud for iwork files?

    mfat,

    I like them sonce they’re easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don’t likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.

    mfat,

    I use an old Apple Cinema display with fedora and it only works at full resolution with Xorg…

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