The two things that decide this device is not for me:
WiFi 6 when 7 is already in the shops. The wifi portion of the router will be obsolete very soon.
I need one uplink and 3-4 ethernet ports. Consumer WiFi routers have this.
So I'm just staying patient for my eventual upgrade from WiFi 5 to 7. I'd been more interested in a non brickable OpenWrt 1+4/8 ethernet device and get me a separate WiFi bridge.
Rottenstick, Yetitrunk and Farfisa?
GNOME is pretty but KDE works.
"Works" as in does what I expect from a desktop without deciding over my head that I should rethink my forty years of accumulated desktop experience without any discernible benefit to it.
Interesting. It's like those data centers that ran on thousands of Xboxes
Apple had its current desktop environment for it's proprietary ecosystem built on BSD with their own twist while supercomputers are typically multiuser parallel computing beats, so I'd say it is really fucking surprising. Pretty and responsive desktop environments and breathtaking number crunchers are the polar opposites of a product. Fuck me, you'll find UNIX roots in Windows NT but my flabbers would be ghasted if Deep Blue had dropped a Blue Screen.
I tried PopOS on my laptop but found it fucky so I tried Fedora KDE and it works. Too many steps Debian -> Ubuntu -> PopOS.
Wait what Mac?
I found out about this yesterday when searching for the KDE sources to make some alterations to the lock screen. I guess this distro is not for me.
FYI, you can get a feel for most distros by running it from a LiveCD/USB stick, fiddle about and see what works and what doesn't.
Get back with results. I switched from Pop!_OS to Fedora KDE today. So far my annoyances with Pop and Gnome are gone and what little I had time to try out with Steam worked well. The kernel is on par with pop. I'm used to Debian based distros and using apt from the command line so it will be a learning experience, but damn the Fedora GUI for packages is streets ahead I must say.
So do the enterprise version work with a regular Win 11 (or Win 10 Pro) licence?
I agree that "obsolete" is an exaggeration, but from my point of view I'm making an upgrade from WiFi 5. WiFi 7 has way better throughout and possibly better real life coverage than 6, so I have no reason to settle with WiFi 6 when 7 is about to be readily available. I live in an apartment with plenty of competitors for the frequencies with good internet speed and plenty of NAS-ish use. And as mentioned, I was only sharing my personal reasons for why this isn't a box for me. Maybe it is great for you and I'd be happy to learn more about your use case.