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Re:Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf] by marttt on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:20AM (#29366645)
He has also written comprehensive desktop guides for Plan 9 [1], Slackware [2] and Unix console [3], this time in HTML. He has clearly put a lot of thought into getting familiar with these systems. In terms of aesthetics/visual humor, the 9front FQA [4] may have been an inspiration here.

Really interesting to see Plan9/9front coming closer to laypeople (of which I sure am one) through this kind of discussions year by year. Maybe it is not that much of a fringe OS any more?

1: https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html

2: https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2018/slackware_desktop.htm...

3: https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2018/console_desktop.html

4: http://fqa.9front.org/

Re:Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf] by pjmlp on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:54AM (#29367326)
9front has been adopted by WSL as the filesystem protocol, so there is that.

https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/plan-9-rides-aga...