I do, and rio loads basically instantly for me.

I use all three web browsers in 9front at different times: abaco, mothra, and netsurf.

My favorite is probably mothra, but netsurf handles most sites in a way that people expect (read: it supports CSS and JS).

ETA: use cases

• abaco

  • pros: acts like acme and supports viewing multiple pages simultaneously, best for text-only browsing

  • cons: very basic, many sites just don’t work at all

• mothra

  • pros: simple, works for a wider variety of sites, can disable image loading entirely with a flag, moth mode is great

  • cons: no tabs, unfamiliar UI for most people, selecting text for snarfing is weird

• netsurf

  • pros: most “normal” web browser, supports CSS and JS, familiar UI

  • cons: no tabs, more bloated than other options, requires compiling a (small) web browser from source

I have a TempleOS theme set as well if this wasn’t the weirdest thing you saw today.

How does one install that, and where?

Like any other operating system, really: by downloading the appropriate installation media and creating a bootable USB stick to install from. After reading the FQA and other documentation, of course.

rio is the window manager for Plan 9. People have created patches for other window managers like dwm that attempt to mimic some of rio’s key features such as window “swallowing” and the ability to draw new windows by simply clicking+dragging with the mouse.

If this is your first time ever encountering Plan 9, I would highly suggest watching some of the videos by adventuresin9; they’re a solid intro to what the whole deal is with Plan 9.

Is this in a VM or on actual hardware?

This is bare metal, specifically on a Thinkpad T420. It is my current daily driver.

…no, I definitely meant dmenu. sandy has keybindings that bring up (by default) various dmenu prompts as a substitute for the usual “command mode”.

: or M-x to bring up a command prompt, C-\ for a “pipe to” prompt, M-\ for a sed prompt… you get the idea.

st is just the suckless terminal emulator; sandy can be run from any terminal emulator.

I’ll give you six that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• sim and vis, both of which focus on combining vim motions with structural regular expressions as used in…

• sam and acme from Plan 9, both of which are included in Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port). sam also has a modified/expanded version in the form of deadpixi/sam, while acme has spin-offs like a port to Go and a standalone version.

• mg, one of the three default text editors included with OpenBSD (the others being vi and ed).

• sandy, the abandoned suckless text editor. It uses dmenu and is fun to mess with for shits and giggles.

A different way to do the usual ..="cd .." and endless chains of ...="cd ../.." types of aliases:

bash/ksh version:

..() {
    local count="${1:-1}"
    local path="../"
    while (( --count > 0 )); do
        path="$path../"
    done
    cd -- "$path"
}

zsh single-line version:

..() { cd $(printf "../%.s" {1..${1:-1}}) }

These take the number of directories that you want to move up as an argument (e.g. .. 3), otherwise they move you up one directory when used with no arguments.

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