Given how utterly cool plan9 is, I have some difficulty understanding how they so completely failed to find a userbase. I think the reason it never became popu

Given how utterly cool plan9 is, I have some difficulty understanding how they so completely failed to find a userbase. I think the reason it never became popular is that the existing popular operating systems have been (to this point) good enough. There just hasn't been a compelling enough reason to invest the time and energy in switching. I think the only way you'll see a large switch is if a "killer app" comes out which takes advantage of Plan 9's features which wouldn't be possible on other OSs.