My home network has a few differences that might be interesting:

I run openwrt on some mikrotik switches. I started with a mikrotik rb750 switch, then switched to rb2011 switches (5x 10/100/1000 + 5x 10/100 ports), and now two rb3011uias-rm 10-port gbit switches.

the openwrt rb3011 build comes from https://github.com/adron-s/openwrt-rb3011

I also run openwrt on a turris omnia and a linksys wrt1900acs.

I use raspberry pis for a few things, notably standalone ntp time via a few cheap usb gps dongles. One pi does time exclusively and runs openwrt with a gps hat with pps + a pi ups hat. I like the flirc pi cases - they are cheap, beefy and have great thermals.

imiric

Why do you prefer OpenWrt over RouterOS on the Mikrotik switches?

I recently upgraded to a CRS326-24S+2Q+RM, and the experience with RouterOS feels much better compared to OpenWrt. Winbox is super polished, everything is well laid out, and it makes even advanced configuration very easy.

I do run OpenWrt on a few APs, and it works fine for that simple use case, but for anything more advanced, I prefer RouterOS. Sure, it's not open source, and not as extensible to allow you to run a bunch of services on it, but those can run on any other server just as well.

m463

I didn't like routeros because it would try to connect to strange ip addresses out of the box.

I like that with openwrt, it doesn't do that, and you can configure all kinds of things just like you want. At first I would use the regular releases and install the packages I wanted. As I got more comfortable with it, I would just build it myself.

It's pretty easy:

   git clone https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt
   cd openwrt
   ./scripts/feeds update -a
   ./scripts/feeds install -a
   make menuconfig
   make -j$(nproc)

make menuconfig is where you choose how your system is configured (packages, kernel modules, config settings, etc)

my initial builds were sort of experimental, but it was kind of fun and eventually I learned to customize exactly what I wanted. For example I would use ipv4 only and strictly control the ip addresses of all my machines. (current openwrt doesn't allow it, you have to turn off ipv6 using sysctl). I configure out wifi/bluetooth from some machines that don't or shouldn't use them. I set up privoxy and some machines do updates through the proxy which whitelists what they can get to. I use vlans, and it keeps traffic segregated well. It's nice to put a weird device on a vlan and know it won't go uploading to the cloud, or update itself without your say so.