I think the general opinion of Plan 9 in suckless is positive, but most people don't find it practical (probably because it hasn't been widely adopted), and I think most people opt for linux distributions like debian and arch. I don't know many with a high opinion of MS Windows.
There's work going on now to create a statically linked suckless linux distribution: stali: http://sta.li/ -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
