Why did this never catch on widely?

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it cant do anything special that gnu/linux cant right? same reason bsd isnt really catching on for desktop

nobody will ever use bsd for desktop other than some 25 people, dwal with it (You)

It can do a lot of things Linux (Or Linux-GNU) can't do. On concept level, GNU and Linux are stuck in the 80s
BSD was just good enough.

Like hwat exactly?

iirc it has all sorts of neat abilities like the ability to mount and use another machine's hardware over the network

Yet another Unix copy, doesn't matter if the only way to make it a desktop is to port over the clusterfuck that is the Linux desktop.

It's not a copy, it's the successor. At least it was intended to be.

Lack of applications. The foundation is good. I gave it a spin, the mouse handling takes a little to get used to but no big problem.

If you want to try mow you might want to go for 9front which is in continuous development. Plan9 is ended.

Private namespaces, for example.
Here you go
lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf