How I Switched to Plan 9
That this is the top story on HN currently is one of those things that makes me think I should just stop looking at HN.  Look, if you want to use Plan 9, go nuts.  Follow your bliss.  I guess.  But the slice of humanity that finds this to be an appealing option is such a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the total.  How is this relevant to any vaguely reasonable person's life?  Why would anyone upvote this Quixotic nonsense?  Plan 9 may the be operating system analog of pumpkin pie, but what could it possibly matter given that it has zero ecosystem and zero uptake?  Jeezum frigging crow.  Give it up.  It's <i>dead</i>.<p>Although I guess one nice thing is that is puts in perspective the fact that stories about tiled window managers and/or Arch Linux and/or God knows what else are always showing up on HN.  Kind of like when you see someone, who you can never understand what the hell they're jabbering about, give a talk about something you already know, and you realize that there's no way in hell you would have understood the topic based on what just came out of their mouth.  Which is clarifying, because it reveals that they just suck at explaining things, and it's not just that you yourself are a dumbass.