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This bugs me. I selected between pfSense and OpnSense a few years ago and got the impression pfSense's support and UI was better. I'm not looking forward to having reconfigure everything if switching :/
Been very happy with OPNsense since switching a few years ago.
I made the switch. It was a good excuse to clean up my config though.
I ended up installing it in a VM initially, just so I could configure it how I needed before going live. Then made a config backup, installed opnsense, then restored the config (after changing the interface names)
I'll never go back to pfsense.
Tried OpenSense twice, always fell back to pfSense.
Plus, work gave me a rackmount Netgate appliance, so I'm on it until that unit dies.
There are some convertors that can wrangle a pfsense config into opnsense. I had the exact same issue and exact same thought about two years ago. But I do like Opnsense much, much more nowadays.