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Depends on your hardware.

Well, depends. Debian has so called "tasks". If you install one of the desktop tasks (e.g. task-gnome-desktop), it's as complete as any other pre-configured distribution.

> Pass doesn't solve the most important issue: passwords available on all devices, most importantly mobile.

https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store

https://github.com/davidjb/pass-ios

This. You could buy an automatic Seiko 5 for the price of a Swatch and go decades without servicing. At least 10 years should be possible without any problems for every model.

At least in Germany we had the so called "Routerzwang". Some ISPs allowed third party equipment, but many didn't. You'd get a modem / router / AP combo device and the ISP had complete control over the firmware. Since there was no competition, most ISPs didn't care about the quality of their software or even security updates.

The last time I looked it required a proprietary binary blob. AFAIK the only free drivers which work well are ath5k and ath9k.

Quite reliable with Optimus? I'd bet your experience is based on desktop GPUs, but Optimus is painful with Linux.

At least in the Debian builds of Chromium the sync component is included. So I guess it's open source?

>and as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares.

The wireless driver is crap, though. The last time I checked it wasn't recommended due to wireless problems.

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers

>It seemed like an endless headache and never worked quite right

The E3000 is based on a Broadcom SoC without free drivers. That's always a bad sign for third party support. Basically you are limited to some ancient kernel which may or may not be running stable. I know the E3000 and DD-WRT on it is indeed a mess.

"Supported" with proprietary drivers often means nothing more than that it boots somehow. The same goes for the new Linksys models with "official" OpenWRT support. The wifi isn't stable at all.

Some ISPs here in Germany don't even allow third party routers.

Because of NATs and (restrictive) firewalls.

For wifi they use only Atheros chipsets because they write their own drivers and changing chipsets would require a complete rewrite for some of their custom stuff.

They had devices with 5 GHz before, just not in their SOHO devices. I've got two of their SXT lites (5 GHz) with directional antennas and my wireless uptime between them is around 70d.

Btw, the interface of their routers is a bit … verbose. I like it, but you should definitely have a look at it before you buy one of their routers: http://demo.mt.lv/webfig/

Even their cheapest devices come with a full copy of their OS, so you could just buy a hAP lite (~$25) and see if you like it. I did the same and never looked back.

I'd consider a Ubiquiti AP or a MikroTik. Both make solid devices for routing and wifi. Especially MikroTik offers some nice all-in-one devices. Never had a problem with them.

>DD-WRT uses the wifi chip vendor's firmware blob to drive the hardware, which is certified by the vendor.

At least for many Atheros-based chipsets they use ath9k instead of the vendor blobs.

Moto E, G, etc.. Almost as cheap as chinese brands, but with much better update / software support.

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