<story><title>How I Switched to Plan 9</title><url>http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangom</author><text>This is an insightful observation. What are your thoughts regarding why most choose to swim with the stream, instead of exploring other models?</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have to use plan9 to value what the 9fans did.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have to use plan9 to secure the benefit of exploring models of software, systems, networks which plan9 explored.&lt;p&gt;I think that you have to swim very strongly across some currents, to decide to &amp;quot;be&amp;quot; in plan9, but its no different in that sense to choosing to live behind a Nokia brick phone, or only using pen and paper in meetings. Others may work effectively in their kanban on a laptop, but the decision to stop using the parts of your brain which type, and instead use the parts of your brain which shape semantic intent, by writing, is quite large.&lt;p&gt;And in that sense, deciding to use plan9, or even just a tiling window manager, or to disable image load in web by default, or to use Markdown or Org mode to do thing instead of reaching for some packaged electron app, or to focus on GO or Haskell or whatever the thing is, which forces you to think about what you are doing in code, That decision may be swimming against the stream, but its big.&lt;p&gt;Plan9 is big. Its not for everyone, and I decided not to invest because it had moving parts I didn&amp;#x27;t feel confident I understood and at the time I looked at it, was wedded to multiple independent instances of boxes I didn&amp;#x27;t own.&lt;p&gt;Now, it is probably entirely possible inside containers or VMs or something, but I am content to know I &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;(I am however, using pen and paper more in meetings)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antihero</author><text>Because perhaps you see an OS not as a hobby, but as a tool, and you may swim across other streams in life such that you feel your time is spent in better ways.&lt;p&gt;For instance, I enjoyed being a janitor for my Arch Linux install for a while - it taught me a lot - but eventually I switched to MacOS because I actually wanted to ignore my OS and focus on the code I was writing and connecting to WiFi reliably.&lt;p&gt;If you are putting your time into something, it makes some sense for it to be something you value.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I Switched to Plan 9</title><url>http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangom</author><text>This is an insightful observation. What are your thoughts regarding why most choose to swim with the stream, instead of exploring other models?</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have to use plan9 to value what the 9fans did.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have to use plan9 to secure the benefit of exploring models of software, systems, networks which plan9 explored.&lt;p&gt;I think that you have to swim very strongly across some currents, to decide to &amp;quot;be&amp;quot; in plan9, but its no different in that sense to choosing to live behind a Nokia brick phone, or only using pen and paper in meetings. Others may work effectively in their kanban on a laptop, but the decision to stop using the parts of your brain which type, and instead use the parts of your brain which shape semantic intent, by writing, is quite large.&lt;p&gt;And in that sense, deciding to use plan9, or even just a tiling window manager, or to disable image load in web by default, or to use Markdown or Org mode to do thing instead of reaching for some packaged electron app, or to focus on GO or Haskell or whatever the thing is, which forces you to think about what you are doing in code, That decision may be swimming against the stream, but its big.&lt;p&gt;Plan9 is big. Its not for everyone, and I decided not to invest because it had moving parts I didn&amp;#x27;t feel confident I understood and at the time I looked at it, was wedded to multiple independent instances of boxes I didn&amp;#x27;t own.&lt;p&gt;Now, it is probably entirely possible inside containers or VMs or something, but I am content to know I &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;(I am however, using pen and paper more in meetings)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Peer pressure. As one of those who consciously refused the smartphone there are people in my environment who won&amp;#x27;t let any chance go by to tell me that &amp;#x27;if I had a smartphone&amp;#x27; and then followed by some inane reason that is probably one of the reasons why I don&amp;#x27;t have one.&lt;p&gt;I can see people giving in just to get rid of that kind of continuous low key harassment.</text></comment>