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Note that I'm not encouraging people to post answers that work for other distributions; I'm rather discouraging downvoting / flagging / voting to delete already posted answers mentioning another distribution that work for Ubuntu.

Would you keep an answer that works, if it works also on Debian? I guess yes.

As long as they work, they're "allowed" (meaning: not deserveful to be deleted).

Many GNU/Linux distributions are so similar in certain aspects that I wouldn't be surprised that even a highly system-dependent solution that works for distribution X would work for Ubuntu as well.

However indeed downvote and flag those that don't.

Note that I'm not encouraging people to post answers that work for other distributions; I'm rather discouraging downvoting / flagging / voting to delete already posted answers mentioning another distribution that work for Ubuntu.

Would you keep an answer that works, if it works also on Debian? I guess yes.

As long as they work, they're "allowed" (meaning: not deserveful to be deleted).

Many GNU/Linux distributions are so similar in certain aspects that I wouldn't be surprised that even a highly system-dependent solution that works for distribution X would work for Ubuntu as well.

However indeed downvote / flag / vote to delete those that don't.

Note that I'm not encouraging people to post answers that work for other distributions; I'm rather discouraging voting down / flagging / voting to delete already posted answers mentioning another distribution that work for Ubuntu.

Would you keep an answer that works, if it works also on Debian? I guess yes.

Would you keep an answer that doesn't work, even if it works on Debian? I guess no.

As long as they work, they're "allowed" (meaning: not deserveful to be deleted).

Many GNU/Linux distributions are so similar in certain aspects that I wouldn't be surprised that even highly some system-dependent solutions that work for other distributions would work for Ubuntu as well.

Just downvote and flag those that don't.

Note that I'm not encouraging people to post answers that work for other distributions; I'm rather discouraging downvoting / flagging / voting to delete already posted answers mentioning another distribution that work for Ubuntu.

Would you keep an answer that works, if it works also on Debian? I guess yes.

As long as they work, they're "allowed" (meaning: not deserveful to be deleted).

Many GNU/Linux distributions are so similar in certain aspects that I wouldn't be surprised that even a highly system-dependent solution that works for distribution X would work for Ubuntu as well.

However indeed downvote and flag those that don't.

Your answer is kinda self-enclosed in your question.

Would you keep an answer that works, if it works also on Debian? I guess yes.

Would you keep an answer that doesn't work, even if it works on Debian? I guess no.

As long as they work, they're "allowed" (meaning: not deserveful to be deleted).

Many GNU/Linux distributions are so similar in certain aspects that I wouldn't be surprised that even highly system-dependent solutions could work across multiple distributions.

Just downvote and flag those that don't work.

Note that I'm not encouraging people to post answers that work for other distributions; I'm rather discouraging voting down / flagging / voting to delete already posted answers mentioning another distribution that work for Ubuntu.

Would you keep an answer that works, if it works also on Debian? I guess yes.

Would you keep an answer that doesn't work, even if it works on Debian? I guess no.

As long as they work, they're "allowed" (meaning: not deserveful to be deleted).

Many GNU/Linux distributions are so similar in certain aspects that I wouldn't be surprised that even highly some system-dependent solutions that work for other distributions would work for Ubuntu as well.

Just downvote and flag those that don't.