Last chance to take the 2026 user survey! (10-20 minutes)

[Andrew David Wong]

Dear Qubes Community,

As [previously announced](https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/06/29/reminder-take-the-2026-user-survey-to-help-shape-the-future-of-qubes/), Qubes OS User Survey 2026 will close on 2026-07-13. If you still wish to take the survey and haven't completed it yet, please do so now.

Whether you're a long-time Qubes user or haven't even installed it yet, we want to hear about your experiences and about what matters to you. Help us make Qubes the best reasonably secure operating system it can be. If you've ever wanted to influence the development of Qubes, now is your chance. Make your voice heard!

[Qubes OS User Survey 2026](https://pad.itl.space/form/#/2/form/view/4+jrJP2pyim2EyFwrbXrOVbQpzUg71Kt+DWR6p2M3IU/)

_This survey is fully anonymous. We do not collect any data except for the answers you provide._

This announcement is also available on the Qubes website:
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/07/11/last-chance-to-take-the-2026-user-survey/

[qubist]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:09:00 -0700 Andrew David Wong wrote:

> If you've ever wanted to influence the development of Qubes, now is
> your chance. Make your voice heard!

Since it was not answered in the dedicated forum thread, where I
asked twice but read only replies to the off-topics by others, I am
using the (last) chance to ask here too:

Would it be possible for us (the Qubes community) to see the summarized
results of the recent survey and possibly know how it affects the
project direction/priorities/milestones?

I hope my voice on this matter will be heard.

[Marta Marczykowska-Górecka]

Yeah, like with the last survey, I'll do a summary post on the website
and probably also a talk at the qubes summit, time permitting.

--
Best Regards,
Marta Marczykowska-Górecka
Qubes OS / Invisible Things Lab

[qubist]

Thank you, Marta!

BTW, how is the survey protected from data bias? E.g. on person posting
N times his feedback (in different form/tone), with the idea to
influence the project direction in a particular way?

[Marta Marczykowska-Górecka]

Well, there is no magic privacy-preserving anti-maliciousness bullet -
we will use our common sense, my own years of experience in reading
survey results and reason to not be overly influenced by what looks
suspicious. But also given the volume of answers (we're at over 1800
now) and what I've seen of them, this seems quite unlikely to be doable.
If someone managed 50 answers that express the same sentiments but are
not identifiable as the same person, I will be deeply impressed ;) (and
as the survey is now closed, this is in no way a challenge!) Any way to
prevent people from doing multiple answers at the same time would also
include some sort of increased potentially privacy-infringing measures,
and I really do not want to 1. do anything that could cause participants
to be compromised 2. do anything that would make participants feel
unsafe (those two things are not the same, even if there is a lot of
overlap, but both are important).

[qubist]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:14:46 +0200 Marta Marczykowska-Górecka wrote:

> Well, there is no magic privacy-preserving anti-maliciousness bullet

Quite right. Thanks for the feedback :)