> I think we are really in basic agreement. The reason I use OpenWRT is > that I use a residential all-in-one WAP / switch / router, which Debian > is unsuitable for. If I ever go the separate WAP / switch / router > route, I'll probably use Debian on the router for the reasons you > give: good support, a system I'm familiar with, etc.
Here's a related datapoint: For a couple years, I have used a <foo>Pi box as router+WAP, running Debian (after having used "home routers" running OpenWRT for many years before that). I was quite happy with it software side (a bit less convenient to configure than OpenWRT for the WAP part, but largely makes up for it for the ease with which I could add auxiliary services and the convenience of using the same OS as I use on all my other machines), but I was unable to make it provide a good enough wireless signal to cover my apartment. So I switched to a box dedicated to WAP+router (BT HomeHub, in my case https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a), whose hardware is too limited to run Debian. IOW the problem for me was to find hardware which is low-power enough to have it "always on" yet whose wifi interface is good enough to cover my apartment: these thingies seem to be much more often able to run OpenWRT than to run Debian :-( W.r.t security, an important advantage of Debian is that upgrades are much easier and smoother (so much so that they can be fully automatic) than in OpenWRT. But I'm a very happy user of OpenWRT (and have been for many many years). Stefan PS: Another reason I went with the BT HomeHub is that it includes the modem (and that this modem is supported by OpenWRT, tho with a proprietary firmware), so it saves me having to have yet another box in that corner (I still have the <foo>Pi there since the HomeHub is not well suited to provide some of those services, which require a largish storage which I'd rather not connect via USB).
