TCF Suggestion Suggestion for an updated selection list of operating systems, when posting a PC bug report on the TCF

Glasia 🌳

Glasia 🌳

The Destroyer
When posting a new thread in the PC bug report section, you have to specify the operating system of your PC. Currently the selection menu when specifying the operating system looks like this:

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I was not there for all of the forum's existence time, but I assume, this section was created, when Linux/Mac support was newly added in 1.3 on August 12, 2015. I see that as the newest Linux/Mac versions were Ubuntu 14.04, Max OSX 10.10 and Max OS 10.9.5 (there is a typo in the menu, C instead of X), which were all from 2014 and Windows 10 came around late July 2015. Also Windows XP was very common in 2015. Now the operating systems evolved and with the years gaming on Linux and Mac became common, and so the bugs on those operating systems. People who try to report a bug they had on Linux/Mac have to always click on "Linux other" or "Mac other" and if they did not specify the OS version themselves, it is a bit chaotic to ask their operating system separately. From the selection menu the only change, it seems was adding Windows 11.

Now I propose to add these options into the selection, especially to reflect the updates of the operating systems:
For Mac (cf version history in macOS version history - Wikipedia) (you may cut off at a specific OS's age if older OS versions of that proposed list are not used anymore so commonly):
  • Mac OSX 10.11
  • macOS 10.12
  • macOS 10.13
  • macOS 10.14
  • macOS 10.15
  • macOS 11
  • macOS 12
  • macOS 13
  • macOS 14
  • macOS 15
  • macOS 26
For Linux (listing the currently supported LTS versions of the most common distros that I know have the LTS system, please add more in the comments if I forgot some major distros and versions):
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Ubuntu 24.04
  • Linux Mint 22.04
  • Linux Mint 24.04
  • Debian
  • Arch Linux
  • Pop!_OS
For Linux/Mac please keep "Linux Other" and "Mac Other", maybe add " (please specify version)" to make it clear that in that case the specific version needs to be written in the comments so that the devs have still a clearer image. I am unsure if the selection of the OS allows that many options, but I see, the Terraria version selection section has 26 options to select from, so I assume that many should be possible also in the OS section. For Windows I suggest, maybe remove Windows XP as a selection, because Windows XP is in 2025 not very common for gaming use anymore and also Windows Vista is not in the list, so why keep Windows XP.

If you have other suggestions for that, do discuss that here in the comments.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll probably look to redo some of the options soon.
 
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