Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations, or submit anything else that will make ricers happy. Maybe a server running on an Amiga, or a Thinkpad signed by Bjarne Stroustrup? Show the world how pretty your computer can be!
machine: ThinkPad T420
os: ⑨front
cwfsprograms:
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For those interested in learning more about Plan 9 and trying it out in a public environment: SDF Public Access UNIX System is hosting their seasonal Plan 9 Boot Camp starting June 20th. Feel free to drop into com and say hello!
I miss my T420 that’s a great laptop
Amazing. Do you feel that it has a future?
I certainly hope so.
In all seriousness, it seems to me that interest in Plan 9 will continue to grow from here, especially with 9front taking the lead and actually moving ahead with real development.
Nice. I like the idea of simple and small. I've had a look at Plan 9 some years ago and had the impression it was mostly dead. Nice to hear that there is some movement.
I feel like that if some alternative wm came out 9front would be more successful
As in a less mouse-driven way to move around? Or just a straight up different window manager?
For the first, 9front has extras on top of Plan 9 – riow(1) and a /dev/kbdtap device described in rio(4) – to allow for more keyboard-driven workflows. It can make rio into a sort of mouse-driven i3/ratpoison-ish thing... kind of.
I autostart it with rio like this:
riow </dev/kbdtap >/dev/kbdtap |[3] mybar
where mybar is a shell function that prints the status bar at the bottom of the screen. That part is used to intercept mouse clicks and turn them into commands for the audio player, zuke.
Do you use 9front for anything "real"?
I guess that depends on if you consider doing basically all of my day-to-day computing as doing anything "real".
I use it for writing, email, programming, browsing, drawing, games... pretty much everything I would do on any other machine. Anything that I can't do directly in Plan 9 is done by accessing from Plan 9.
does proton work on it
No, but it comes with Doom as well as a bunch of other games and emulators. See games(1) and nintendo(1) for details.
Fantastic styling
Reminds me of Slackware, back in the 90s.