# 2025 NixOS Community Survey Report

DevFeed: [2025 NixOS Community Survey Report](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/2025-nixos-community-survey-report-31344.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-nixos-community-survey-report/78812>)

Author: djacu

Published: 2026-07-08T15:13:37Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Announcements - NixOS Discourse](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/announcements-nixos-discourse.md>)

Topics: [Nix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nix.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Astro](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/astro.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

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## AI overview

The 2025 NixOS Community Survey collected 3,399 complete responses from September 1 to December 15, 2025, a 48% increase over 2024. Its report presents aggregated, anonymized results through interactive charts covering community demographics, technology use, experience, contribution, and information seeking. NixOS was the main entry point for most respondents, while flakes and the new nix CLI were the most-used experimental features; flakes were also the most requested area for improvement.

## Source excerpt

Hello everyone! On behalf of the NixOS Marketing Team, we're happy to announce that survey results now have a permanent home on the NixOS website: NixOS Surveys First up: the full report for the 2025 NixOS Community Survey at 2025 Community Survey Results The survey ran from September 1 to December 15, 2025 and drew 3,399 complete responses, a 48% increase over the 2,290 we received in 2024. Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond! What's in the report The report turns the responses into interactive charts across seven sections: People, Technology, Experience, Workplace, Contribution, Foundation, and Information seeking. A few highlights to get you started: The community is new and growing. 28.9% of respondents started using Nix within the past year, and 82.5% have under four years of experience. NixOS is the front door to the ecosystem. 70.8% heard of NixOS before Nix itself, 78.4% first installed Nix through NixOS, and YouTube is the single largest discovery channel (28.3%). Flakes are everywhere, in both senses. Flakes (78.9%) and the new nix CLI (66.7%) are by far the most-used experimental features, and flakes also top the list of areas respondents most want improved (50.3%), alongside error messages (47.6%) and the reference manual (41.5%). There's much more in the full report: demographics, hardware and platform targets, contribution patterns, upgrade experiences, and how people find help. About the data We take respondent privacy seriously: only aggregated and anonymized results are published, and raw responses are never released. The data pipeline, chart code, and the site itself are available at GitHub - NixOS/surveys - GitHub. Issues and pull requests are welcome, and you can build and hack on the site locally without access to any raw data. We could use your help This survey is put together by a handful of volunteers on the NixOS Marketing Team, and it's a lot of work for a small group: designing the questions, running and promoting the survey