I have had good results with the GL.iNet routers too, but the "supported by openwrt" just means that GL.iNet pulled an old version of OpenWRT and hacked it up until it worked on their board instead of making their own OEM firmware. They're not upstreaming their patches or collaborating with OpenWRT, just kind of leeching off them.
I'm not even sure you can install vanilla OpenWRT on the Flint 2 yet.
In contrast, this is made by and with the OpenWRT dev team!
It looks like the patch was committed in late September [0] and the press release for the device is dated mid November [1]. So unless I'm reading things wrong they added support upstream before they released the product?
I'm not even sure you can install vanilla OpenWRT on the Flint 2 yet.
In contrast, this is made by and with the OpenWRT dev team!