# George Hotz checking out Nix for the first time :-)

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/george-hotz-checking-out-nix-for-the-first-time/36838
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**Created:** [December 14, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/george-hotz-checking-out-nix-for-the-first-time/36838 "2023-12-14T00:04:12Z")
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#### Post date: [December 20, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/george-hotz-checking-out-nix-for-the-first-time/36838/27 "2023-12-20T11:26:36Z")

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I think @fricklerhandwerk did some user tests with simple usecases:

- download and install nix
- install a package
- open the program in the package

IIRC most got confused by the homepage. There have been multiple threads and issues about it

> [@Landing page is completely unclear for new users](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/landing-page-is-completely-unclear-for-new-users/22990):
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> I heard about NixOS before (but mostly forgotten about it), recently I encountered one more thread on Hacker News about problems with Snap on Ubuntu. One of discussion threads was about Snap-free alternatives for Ubuntu and at this point I am sufficiently irritated with Snap to at least test some OS in VMs. With If you want a paradigm shift, try NixOS + home-manager I decided to try also NixOS, so I ended on [https://nixos.org/](https://nixos.org/) and become confused. Nix is a tool that takes a unique approac…

> [@Actionable short-term improvements to the website](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/actionable-short-term-improvements-to-the-website/18748):
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> As already discussed in related issues: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/734](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/734)[https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/828](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/828) Currently the main page does a really good job at explaining to a nix DevOps engineer exactly why NixOS is good, but it provides little to no information to a person who’s not “in the loop” yet. In order to start discussing what actionable changes to make in order to improve the situation, the first question to answer should be: “who are these changes …

Those two topics have suggestions within them and related topics that can result in a PR for the homepage, which IMO is the first step. The homepage is probably an important entry point for newcomers. ~~If it isn’t clear, it will turn away new users~~ It isn’t clear and turns away potential new users.

I do not know if there is reluctance to change it, fear of doing so (“I don’t know what this is, so how am I supposed to know what to write?”, “is only the marketing team allowed to change this?”, and similar feelings), or inability to do so (what in the world `.tt`? can only `nix` users contribute with the `nix-shell` requirement?, etc.), or all the above.

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