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I messed around with hurd years ago. I don't think that's enough for me to have an opinion on the technology behind it but as far as my view of the OS, it's this:

It's a lot of smart ideas with very poor execution. At this point I don't think there's any use case where GNU/Hurd is superior to GNU/Linux. It's not like say, IRIX where the appeal is similar to say tuning an old Datsun 510 with an L16, or a vintage Chevy with a 327 V8.

In my completely subjective opinion, Mach is a mistake. It's a generation one microkernel with all of the problems and drawbacks that are enumerated in the Andrew Tanenbaum v. Linus Torvalds discussion. This is not so true for later microkernels such as L3/L4. Those are far more capable and useful. The fact that Apple has dragged it along for the last 30 years (during its NeXT run even) is simply a case of throwing money at it. I'd argue that macOS and Windows actually have very similar structural flaws, both out of a desire to simplify configuration. What would you prefer to work with, the Registry, the Library or a bunch of plaintext config files in /etc and others prefixed directories? The last option may not lead to the most unified system or the most user-friendly for the lowest common denominator of computer user, but it's a far better option for most folks than trying to make a pseudo-Berkeley DB or an XML/Plist catalog with reckless abandon. Dumbing down computers has only led to more stupidity, it has not made people's quality of life better. It was far better when people had to actually learn how to use DOS or BASIC, because it kept ignorant people off of the web. Elitist, that may sound, but my tangent is over with. Ultimately I want what's best for the internet and sometimes that's not compatible with opinions of people at large, especially with how some hacker news guys masturbate over KDE or macOS aqua as the pinnacle of GUI design.