Ask HN: Has anyone used a HURD-based system before?

I'm just curious, maybe someone tried it for development purposes, or just to mess around?

Honestly, if Arch/Hurd was ready, I'd have tried it myself. The most usable distro is probably Debian/HURD, has anyone used that, and if yes - is there an immediately noticeable difference in how the system performs/feels?

And is it really that big of a deal that it's only 32 bit at the moment? (Yeah it limits the maximum usable RAM, but otherwise?)