Is dell wyse 3040 reliable cheap device for openwrt?

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Both pfsense/opnsense are FreeBSD based which have some UEFI bugs making it hard to run on wyse 3040 which uses UEFI-only firmware. This was my experience. However, I have tried IPFire (Linux based firewall) and it worked fine. Though, there are some people who have used wyse 3040 as router - pfSense single NIC (Dell Wyse 3040) Dell 3040 as a WiFi Thin Client Wyse as OpenWrt Router I have used DietPi, Ubuntu Server, Proxmox, Debian as OS on it. These are some of the good use cases for wy…

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