[sortie]

I'm not trying to gain users. Sortix 0.9 is not permanently installable on real hardware from itself. The upcoming release will contain an installer for permanent installation, however. You are quite simply not my audience. Even if I did aggressively market myself, my OS will not be useful to most. If you installed it, you would quickly want feature X, such as networking or a GUI, and feel disappointed it does not live up to your unrealistic expectations. This is a small hobbyist operating system. The people I want to attract are capable developers and power users willing to actually put Sortix to use.

[moron4hire]

I'm not saying that you need to spend less time developing and more time selling. Your goals are your concern and your priority. I completely understand wanting to work on code and not put any effort into selling and let whomever show up that will. That has been my default state for the last 15 years.

But, while you said "I'm not trying to gain users", you also said "The people I want to attract are...". Those two statements aren't compatible. Developers (like me) are a type of user.

Whatever you want to call them--developers, users, minions, whatever--when your audience has several choices available to them for how they spend their time, marketing is just the means by which we try to convince people to take our option over some other option.

Personally, I'm getting a little tired of being on my own for all of my projects, so I am making myself learn more about marketing. I had just hoped to share.