Which operating system do you use for your music making?

Wow I didn't know that people actually still used Windows 8 I always thought of it as a weird intermediate between 7 and 10, kind of like Vista ..

Maybe vote for Windows 10 then which should be closest.

Cool, that's just Linux.

I'm a mac guy at heart (and we have a household imac, so MacOS would be my second choice in this poll) but I've been getting into Linux over the last few years as I really wanted something portable for music stuff and couldn't justify spending macbook money. I hear amazing things about the M1 air, and I don't even think it's particularly expensive for what it is, but i ended up getting a mid-range ASUS and putting Ubuntu on it. Plus, its an interesting challenge getting to grips with command-line stuff

Also, Mac is sooo mainstream these days. Linux is cool and edgy, right???  

well, the windows 8 is just what the surface pro3 came with...  and after hearing all the cursing coming from my partner after getting a windows 10 laptop, i left it there , just security updates for me .. also i don’t want to break the Nord Micro Modular interface which is already less robust in windows 8. 

I think the more important note is that I ( and probably a whole host of others) don’t use ‘standard’ computer operating systems in their day to day lives now, just mobile stuff.. though i know iOS isn’t a huge draw for the “coding scene” (yet) .. it’s still worth considering how ( or IF? ) it could be used for these kinds of things.. it feels almost steampunk when i have to open a computer to do something these days .. 
 it was such a bonus when namke made this Core.ae module flash-able by audio in..  though of course i stand little chance of coding anything arduino on the ipad ... but that’s just me ... it’s not entirely impossible it seems. 
i’m really just wondering out loud if some lo-cost programmable chips will come along that are geared towards mobile technology interfaces.. it seems inevitable?
 i suppose i could take a leaf from dizzeesatchel and do some kind of linux tablet .. but learning a whole new routine requires a certain amount of spare time.. 
the proliferation of platforms!! such an interesting subject..  

I've just upgraded from vista to 7.

None.

Apart from Zoom R8's firmware, if that counts as an OS

Looks like the strain of the update was too much for the old girl. Got disc read error now and won't boot. I shall miss her😃

touch screen high five Felix!  though annoyingly i will have to go briefly back into windowsland when this TBD eventually arrives

Two Macs running High Sierra (don't plan to go beyond that) and a Windows 10 laptop.
I would never run Linux for my daws and things.

... or changing the keyboard layout or the screen settings.. . 

I use Linux and Reaper, VCV Rack, Orca with Pilot or VCV Rack. Currently I use PopOS; used Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch in the past. I think setting up audio and keyboard layout on Ubuntu or PopOS (which I think is derived from Ubuntu) is just as simple as on any other OS. Some VST plugins are not available on Linux for sure.