I know this is a sensitive subject, and people seem to have a quite absolute opinion about it: posts not strictly and exclusively about Ubuntu.

Would I encourage people using other distros to post questions here? No! Would I close questions which possibly can be caused by distro-specific issues (non-Ubuntu)? Absolutely!

We are no idiots however, we can fairly see if an issue possibly is caused by a distro-specific issue, but more importantly, when it isn't.
If a question is an obviously generic Linux question, useful to us, 100% without a doubt applicable to Ubuntu, 100% certain not caused by a (-nother) distro's specific issue, would I close a useful question?

Hell no.

That is why, among others, this closure hurts my eyes. You are wasting useful information, hurting the site. Let's not act like machines, in a binary type of decision taking. Reality is more complicated then a set of rules.

I know this is a sensitive subject, and people seem to have a quite absolute opinion about it: posts not strictly and exclusively about Ubuntu.

• Would I encourage people using other distros to post questions here? No!
• Would I close questions which possibly can be caused by distro-specific issues (non-Ubuntu)? Absolutely!

We are not idiots however Most of the time, we can see if an issue is possibly caused by a distro-specific issue, but more importantly, when it isn't.
If a question is an obviously generic Linux question, useful to us, 100% without a doubt applicable to Ubuntu, 100% certain not caused by a (-nother) distro's specific issue, would I close a useful question?

Hell no.

That is why, among others, this closure hurts my eyes. You are wasting useful information, hurting the site. Let's not act like machines, in a binary type of decision taking. Reality is more complicated then a set of rules.

I know this is a sensitive subject, and people seem to have a quite absolute opinion about it: posts not strictly and exclusively about Ubuntu.

Would I encourage people using other distro's to post questions here? No! Would I close questions which possibly can be caused by distro specific issues (non- Ubuntu)? Absolutely!

We are no idiots however, we can fairly see if an issue possibly is caused by a distro specific issue, but more importantly, when it isn't.
If a question is an obviously generic Linux question, useful to us, 100% without a doubt applicable to Ubuntu, 100% certain not caused by a (-nother) distro's specific issue, would I close a useful question?

Hell no.

That is why, among others, this closure hurts my eyes. You are waisting useful information, hurting the site. Let's not act like machines, in a binary type of decision taking. Reality is more complicated then a set of rules.

I know this is a sensitive subject, and people seem to have a quite absolute opinion about it: posts not strictly and exclusively about Ubuntu.

Would I encourage people using other distros to post questions here? No! Would I close questions which possibly can be caused by distro-specific issues (non-Ubuntu)? Absolutely!

We are no idiots however, we can fairly see if an issue possibly is caused by a distro-specific issue, but more importantly, when it isn't.
If a question is an obviously generic Linux question, useful to us, 100% without a doubt applicable to Ubuntu, 100% certain not caused by a (-nother) distro's specific issue, would I close a useful question?

Hell no.

That is why, among others, this closure hurts my eyes. You are wasting useful information, hurting the site. Let's not act like machines, in a binary type of decision taking. Reality is more complicated then a set of rules.