OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

OpenWRT is such a good os for a router - simple but configurable UI, works reliably, I wish router companies would just ship it by default

But then you get annoying firmware providers like Broadcom who refuse to write OSS drivers for linux and a lot of work is being spent on the reverse engineering

Ok, but this should not be a major limiting factor.

From my experience, there is sufficient amount of routers based on well-supported chips which work okay with OpenWRT.

When I consider to buy a new router, I go to the OpenWRT device support page, filter for features I would like to get and choose one of the supported routers listed there.

I gave up on openwrt when I realized that a lot of the recent WiFi standards seem to be badly supported. I think 802.11ac was significantly faster with vendor firmware than openwrt, for example.