A virtual machine + drawterm is a good way to dip your toes in, we distribute a amd64 qcow2 image that should be ready to go in QEMU. If you want to try on hard

A virtual machine + drawterm is a good way to dip your toes in, we distribute a amd64 qcow2 image that should be ready to go in QEMU. If you want to try on hardware an old thinkpad is probably the easiest, but we should run on most sensible PCs (but perhaps without wifi). I also wrote a nix flake (https://github.com/majiru/9front-in-a-box/ https://github.com/majiru/9front-in-a-box/) for setting up stuff a bit more automatically if that happens to jive with your system. The system is capable of networking a bunch of systems together, but doing so is not a requirement to experience a lot of what the system has to offer.