Please add Windows 8.1 & 10 to host list in Profile

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Please add Windows 8.1 & 10 to host list in Profile

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Please add Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 to the list of hosts in Profile.
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? I have no idea what that means. You control your own profile.
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Done so. He means the "Primary OS" field in the forum profile. I've just added Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
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Oh I see, he meant offer those as possible selections.
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Frank Mehnert wrote:I've just added Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
Wouldn't it be better to just have Windows XP and then Windows other, sort of like for OS X where it only has Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X other?
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Post by frank »

These fields are more or less a hack. I cannot change the name of an existing field because that would change the name for all users using these fields.
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Post by loukingjr »

FWIW, I don't need to read which OS people have listed in their profiles and I don't need to see mine because I know what I use.

Just my 2¢
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In theory it's supposed to provide background info so people don't have to keep answering questions about their host and guest. When I first joined this site the mods as a matter of course asked you to flesh out your profile.

In practice - I agree that the feature is too limited to be very useful. I expect a log as a matter of course and that tells me everything I need to know about the exact problem. I guess the profile still gives me the general background: Windows guy, Linux guy, Mac guy.
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Solaris Dude, DOS Dude, Other(?) Dude. :)
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