> But just like plan9 I have a hard time actually doing anything with it.

For me Plan 9 isn't about daily driving or how useful it currently is, rather, It's for exploring a new way to build software. There are lots of pieces missing but that's the fun part, you get to build them!

As for daily driving, 9front has vmx(8) so you can run virtual machines on supported Intel hardware. I know a dev who runs Linux (I think OpenBSD too) in vmx using VNC to run a browser. 9front Drawterm also has a few tricks to work in reverse where the Linux resources are exported to the Plan 9 workstation.

Edit, I should also mention that Arcan is close to how I would envision building a web OS using Inferno: don't start with a browser, start with a highly portable OS who's user space lives in a VM.