Upgrades are “owut upgrade” these days. Pretty straightforward.

Maybe so. The documentation seems to be all over the map, and the GUI suggests using "attended sysupgrade" for upgrades.

...which I tried doing, a week or so ago, for a minor point release update within the 25.12.x series. And then the router went out to lunch and didn't come back.

Getting it going again wasn't so bad as such things go. My router has a huge advantage here in that it's a Raspberry Pi 4, so it's easy to remove/replace/re-do the flash device and start over.

(Except: I get all out of sorts when I need to do Internet stuff to fix my Internet connection while that Internet connection is absent.)

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aborsy a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah, for non-X86 devices, getting to U-boot with pressing a combination of PINs in particular order and conditions and releasing at right time is a pain.

I think I wasted $100,000 in salary for $100 more in device cost, in setting up an OpenWRT router.

Apart from installation and upgrades, the OS itself is nice, very flexible and capable.

	▲	ssl-3 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Well-said. I've got other options for routing hardware and software (of course I do), but I generally keeping using OpenWRT. Looking back, it seems like I've had it around in some form or other in active use for about 20 years so far. Part of what keeps it around is the flexibility and the home-network-centric hack-value. I mean, this whole thing grew out of a shell injection exploit on a Linksys WRT54G. :) Anyway, it can keep whatever counts as a slow WAN connection today feeling responsive and quick with cake SQM, even while loaded heavy with traffic and users. It's nice in that way, even though enterprise types don't seem to be interested in that kind of thing at all. I could take a nice Juniper router home from work to use instead and it would absolutely trounce the packet-forwarding performance of my cheap OpenWRT box...while also doing nothing at all to make my home-gamer WAN limitations more tolerable. So OpenWRT is still my answer, with the warts and upgrade woes and all.