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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the desktop?
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// Can Plan 9 be used successfully on a personal desktop...

yes, but...

// as a replacement for, say, Windows or Linux?

not really, no.

you can use it as a desktop system, but you're going to have a
*very* different experience from what you'd have using, say,
Windows or Linux. *VERY* different.

its not that the design goals are incompatable, so much as the
focus of most of the community does not lend itself to working
on typical "desktop" apps. there's nothing in the design to
prevent someone from porting, say, Mozilla or gtk or whatever,
but it's a ton of work that nobody's done, and most of the
community doesn't really have a drive for.
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