> (how would you ever figure out what " $#* " means?)
It's in the manual.
> Now where did that @#!$ sysadmin put it?
The point of Plan 9 is that you don't rely on the sysadmin to put things places for you. You'd mount your home filesystem from wherever it lives and everything would be back to where you expect it. You could even mount /bin from whatever machine you wanted.
Plan 9 does not work in pieces. It only works if you're all-in, which is the reason I don't use it. But when you're all-in, it's very nice. None of the things you're objecting to turn out to be problems in practice. The problems in practice come from not having a c++ compiler or a web browser.
It has more to do with nobody getting paid to teach you about systems engineering. Some search engine keywords to get you started are "distributed systems fault tolerance".
It's in the manual.
> Now where did that @#!$ sysadmin put it?
The point of Plan 9 is that you don't rely on the sysadmin to put things places for you. You'd mount your home filesystem from wherever it lives and everything would be back to where you expect it. You could even mount /bin from whatever machine you wanted.
Plan 9 does not work in pieces. It only works if you're all-in, which is the reason I don't use it. But when you're all-in, it's very nice. None of the things you're objecting to turn out to be problems in practice. The problems in practice come from not having a c++ compiler or a web browser.