Posted from 9front (using netsurf).

I also run https://shithub.us, which is hosted from plan 9, and more or less needs plan 9 for push access. It uses the hjgit:// protocol for push access, which requires plan9 auth to establish the channel. The fact that there are so many repos up should give a hint at how active the community is.

Follow up question then: why?

This isn’t meant to come off as judgmental, but a real question. Plan 9 looks pretty neat but I would think that the lack of driver support alone would make it pretty difficult to run for anything.

The term is 'recreational computing' ;)

But actually most older thinkpads are pretty well supported, you can even get Wifi with OpenBSDs drivers.

It's comfortable.

Fair enough! I've played a bit with Inferno and Plan 9 inside VMs, but never tried to run it full time. Maybe I should give it a go on one of my spare laptops.