# Who uses NixOS? Who are you people? (And good-bye)

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/who-uses-nixos-who-are-you-people-and-good-bye/16507
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**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/who-uses-nixos-who-are-you-people-and-good-bye/16507 "2021-12-09T07:44:10Z")
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### Author: ![pxc](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/pxc/32/17601_2.png) [@pxc](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/pxc)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/who-uses-nixos-who-are-you-people-and-good-bye/16507/10 "2021-12-09T16:03:58Z")

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> [@mwb](#):
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> The RedHat talk that you all loved had the opposite effect on me. Who the heck gets upset that his OS supports some filesystem out of the box?! Who finds this relatable?

Oh, minor point here: I don’t think the upsetting thing was that an experimental filesystem that can only be run on a special fork of the Linux kernel is well supported. It was two things:

1. The advice he got on how to achieve this was so simple that he _couldn’t believe_ it was useful or on-topic advice. So he was initially annoyed at receiving (what he thought was) bad advice from someone who (he thought) wasn’t really listening to his problem and (he thought) didn’t understand how experimental `bcachefs` still was/is.
2. When that simple advice _did_ work, it laid waste to all his overcomplicated plans about how to approach the problem. There might be some playful anger in this, but the experience is mostly delight, like in being amusingly duped by a brilliant magic trick. You find yourself thinking _how the hell did you do that, you clever bastard!?_ It’s a feeling that your expectations of what’s even _possible_ have been subverted. It’s perplexing but it’s also joyful.

Hopefully that makes it a little more relatable.

([This](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/half-a-presentation-i-had-in-my-company-about-nixos/16467) is the thread for the talk under discussion.)

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