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terdon
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On the one hand I agree with you. I find the Ubuntu culture of always updatingupgrading very annoying. I also don't see the point of making questions about older versions off topic. What if I can't upgrade due to hardware/time constraints? What if my boss won't let me? What if I don't have physical access to the machine in question? I've never understood why these questions are off topic here.

As far as I can tell, there are two reasons why EOL questions are off topic:

  1. The aforementioned Ubuntu culture of always upgrading. This seems to be very deeply ingrained in the Ubuntu community.

  2. It is a relatively simple way to keep the volume of questions down. We already get far more questions than we answer so keeping EOL out makes the load more manageable.

Whatever the case, and while I did upvote your proposal, there is a simpler approach. Since this community has made it (relatively) clear that EOL is unwanted here, just ask on Unix & Linux. We don't have any problem with older versions there and, speaking as a diamond moderator, your EOL questions would be welcome.

On the one hand I agree with you. I find the Ubuntu culture of always updating very annoying. I also don't see the point of making questions about older versions off topic. What if I can't upgrade due to hardware/time constraints? What if my boss won't let me? What if I don't have physical access to the machine in question? I've never understood why these questions are off topic here.

As far as I can tell, there are two reasons why EOL questions are off topic:

  1. The aforementioned Ubuntu culture of always upgrading. This seems to be very deeply ingrained in the Ubuntu community.

  2. It is a relatively simple way to keep the volume of questions down. We already get far more questions than we answer so keeping EOL out makes the load more manageable.

Whatever the case, and while I did upvote your proposal, there is a simpler approach. Since this community has made it (relatively) clear that EOL is unwanted here, just ask on Unix & Linux. We don't have any problem with older versions there and, speaking as a diamond moderator, your EOL questions would be welcome.

On the one hand I agree with you. I find the Ubuntu culture of always upgrading very annoying. I also don't see the point of making questions about older versions off topic. What if I can't upgrade due to hardware/time constraints? What if my boss won't let me? What if I don't have physical access to the machine in question? I've never understood why these questions are off topic here.

As far as I can tell, there are two reasons why EOL questions are off topic:

  1. The aforementioned Ubuntu culture of always upgrading. This seems to be very deeply ingrained in the Ubuntu community.

  2. It is a relatively simple way to keep the volume of questions down. We already get far more questions than we answer so keeping EOL out makes the load more manageable.

Whatever the case, and while I did upvote your proposal, there is a simpler approach. Since this community has made it (relatively) clear that EOL is unwanted here, just ask on Unix & Linux. We don't have any problem with older versions there and, speaking as a diamond moderator, your EOL questions would be welcome.

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terdon
terdon
  • 102.8k
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  • 74
  • 136

On the one hand I agree with you. I find the Ubuntu culture of always updating very annoying. I also don't see the point of making questions about older versions off topic. What if I can't upgrade due to hardware/time constraints? What if my boss won't let me? What if I don't have physical access to the machine in question? I've never understood why these questions are off topic here.

As far as I can tell, there are two reasons why EOL questions are off topic:

  1. The aforementioned Ubuntu culture of always upgrading. This seems to be very deeply ingrained in the Ubuntu community.

  2. It is a relatively simple way to keep the volume of questions down. We already get far more questions than we answer so keeping EOL out makes the load more manageable.

Whatever the case, and while I did upvote your proposal, there is a simpler approach. Since this community has made it (relatively) clear that EOL is unwanted here, just ask on Unix & Linux. We don't have any problem with older versions there and, speaking as a diamond moderator, your EOL questions would be welcome.