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Nothing about this website tells me why I would want to use NixOS. It's very odd.

You're right. The website right now was written for existing NixOS users.

They're also the initial target demographics, if only because this is a limited amount of developers in what is a cross-section of two niches: Non-Android Mobile Linux and NixOS users.

But you're totally right. Once it's "ready enough" for any end-user, we'd want to make it clear "why Mobile NixOS rather than another Non-Android Mobile Linux?"

I think you should also consider it the top result for anyone searching the name 'mobile nixos' - which means that even people who aren't your current target demo are going to go there to try to figure out what it is, and the current website fails spectacularly to do that.

First impressions really are important.

Again you're right. Though the problem is that NixOS itself still doesn't have the answer for this question. So it's less about "Why Mobile NixOS?" and more "Why NixOS?".

Mobile NixOS is intended to be strictly a supserset composed on top of NixOS. So the question should be answered the same, except you add "for your mobile devices" at the end.

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