POLL: What Operating Systems do you use for music production? (Jan 2026)

[El°HYM]

Another round... lets go!

Hello everyone!

I am again seeking your input to unscientifically determine operating system platform popularity. I've been doing this once yearly for several years now, and it has been interesting to see the changes in popularity of the various operating systems on which music is produced. Also, this helps developers to determine where to focus development time for their plugin instruments and effects. This Poll will run for 30 days, and then will be ended until next year.

Please, check all boxes that apply to you. You can go back and change your selections if needed.

Thank you again for your help!

[XorXisT]

Let's do it!

[audiojunkie]

See, this is one of the problems of a single post--the only people who see this poll are those who go into the "Everything Else" subforum. This is why I made three other posts in popular subthreads, and had planned on bumping them daily. I really think I was keeping things at a minimum and trying to avoid spamming as much as possible. I really hope we can get enough people to participate so that we can get decent results.... Only 34 votes so far......

[enCiphered]

I think most forum users don’t browse subforums in isolation. They follow the latest posts page. Creating multiple identical threads and intentionally bumping them daily is really weird and doesn’t expand reach in a meaningful way.

[revvy]

See, this is one of the problems of a single post--the only people who see this poll are those who go into the "Everything Else" subforum. This is why I made three other posts in popular subthreads, and had planned on bumping them daily. I really think I was keeping things at a minimum and trying to avoid spamming as much as possible. I really hope we can get enough people to participate so that we can get decent results.... Only 34 votes so far......

There are currently two threads on this in this very subforum…

And you posted two threads on it in Computers alone, along with other sub forums.

Loads of people voted before and then Ben accidentally deleted the poll. This is the biggie.

These are the issues, not that you have to do what every other poster in every other thread on KVR does and not post multiple threads on the same thing.

Why not close one of the current threads here and in the active one put ‘Please vote again, original poll deleted!’ in the subject?

2027, probably best to stick to one thread?

[BBFG#]

Maybe get the mods to move it to the Getting Started subforum where there's a bigger audience too.

[seafire]

This is why I made three other posts in popular subthreads, and had planned on bumping them daily. I really think I was keeping things at a minimum and trying to avoid spamming as much as possible.

3 other posts and daily bumps is hardly keeping things to a minimum
It's it quite literally the definition of spamming.

[audiojunkie]

This is why I made three other posts in popular subthreads, and had planned on bumping them daily. I really think I was keeping things at a minimum and trying to avoid spamming as much as possible.

3 other posts and daily bumps is hardly keeping things to a minimum
It's it quite literally the definition of spamming.

Bumping is not spamming--bumping is bumping. Posting the same thing in three threads is crossposting, not spamming.

So, if we are being technical, I "crossposted" the messages regarding the same topic to three additional forums, which were combined (sort of) into my one post.

And I didn't make this new post.

[foosnark]

I think most forum users don’t browse subforums in isolation. They follow the latest posts page.

For me this is way too busy a forum to bother with the Latest page. I just look at the specific sections I'm interested in.

Maybe get the mods to move it to the Getting Started subforum where there's a bigger audience too.

And then everyone who has been doing this too long to care about the "Getting Started" subforum will miss it...

[BBFG#]

More people go there than here. And I only got here through that link. Otherwise, I don't even list this subforum in my view list.

[audiojunkie]

There's not really a good answer, unfortunately. The ideal solution would be to have KVR host the poll yearly, and advertise it properly to get better participation -- like they do with the yearly KVR Reader's Choice awards polling and the KVR Developer's Challenge. Then there would be no accusations of spamming or skewing the questions to be biased towards a particular OS. I wish we could get Ben to do this.

[audiojunkie]

It’s too bad we lost the first survey. But, isn’t it interesting how different the numbers are? That’s why it’s so important to get as many participants as possible.

[revvy]

I think Ben should set up January in Kvr so that you can only read or post if you first complete the OS poll and help bump the support thread(s).

[audiojunkie]

I think Ben should set up January in Kvr so that you can only read or post if you first complete the OS poll and help bump the support thread(s).

It would definitely guarantee the numbers! But I don't think he'd do it. If we could get KVR (Ben) to do anything, it would be best, I think, to have them do it like the Reader's Choice Awards and the KVR Developer Challenge voting.

[revvy]

_In_ the Readers Choice?

If it doesn’t have the question already (I don’t complete the survey, so no idea) just add an extra question about OS.