From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10702260708i7be0cd7bs49f7eda72c6935ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:08:47 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10702260119y1d6c77deub0e832482776bb89@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14c1b292-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2/26/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > plan 9 is having trouble keeping the converted. why would > adding one more layer of goo to the gnu goo stack convert > the hardened of heart? Because the first thing that most people say when I show them rio is 'yuck'. And, in most cases, they don't stop saying 'yuck'.Acme does not help. Sorry, but most people hate the Plan 9 GUI. It is off-putting enough that they are not that interested in seeing the beauty of it all. It seems a shame to keep losing people because of one aspect of Plan 9. For me, anyway, rio is not the only piece of this system that is important. In fact, for what i'm doing with it, rio does not matter at all. I realize there are many differences of opinion on this issue ... thanks ron