More security, more features, and easier to expand your 'home lab' -- not to mention how much you can learn about networking.
As a lightweight distro, OPNsense has fairly modest hardware requirements. So long as your router, mini-PC, or SBC is powered ...
OPNsense will run on just about anything, including a low-power Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC). I have an old ...
Promox with OPNsense as a VM. Requirements are: I'm not planning on using IDS or anything so don't need a lot of CPU performance. It looks like boxes based on an Intel N100 meet all the above ...