From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: a@9srv.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the desktop? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:33:37 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6004c776-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 // Yes really, yes. At least, some of us do that. the point of my split response was that you *can* certainly use plan9 as a desktop, but it won't "replace windows", in the same sense that linux w/ kde or gnome or whatever can be said to. i don't think that's a bad thing at all. i used plan9 as my only system for years, quite happily. but i wasn't looking for a "windows replacement" - i was looking for a good system. plan9 won't give you wysiwyg html editors, office-style prodoctivity apps, your half-dozen IM environments, quicktime, nor quake. none of these make it a bad system, or even really detrack from it at all for many people. but it does, in a very substantial way, i think, make it unsuitable as a "windows replacement". =E3=82=A2