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Will 'askubuntu.com' be an alternative for the 'ubuntu forums'?
Hey,
I was wondering how to know the best place for your question? I was browsing the 'questions' section and I came across a numbers of problems that aren't just "questions", the same kind you'd ...
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Need help! What problems would be best solved by a wizard?
I've talked about a wizard to help people find existing questions and improve the quality of the ones they post if they can't find one. I've talked about this for so long without doing anything so ...
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How can I add videos to my questions?
How can I send a video to you to show what's going on when I'm logging on Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a problem that involves a sequence of events and I need to show a video to explain the problem.
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Are python questions appropriate for this site?
Python is so ingrained in Ubuntu. Would it be appropriate to ask python related questions on this forum? Or WHEN is it appropriate to ask questions about python? Where is a good place to ask python ...
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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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Why did this question get so many downvotes?
How to automatically execute a command every time a certain command terminates?
What did I do wrong? It's a perfectly suitable question... so why has it got so many downvotes?
Was it due to me not ...
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Can I ask a question on Ask Ubuntu about all the old distros?
I thought about creating a "question" in order to remind (or "honour") all the old Ubuntu releases (4.10 Warthy - 16.10 Yakkety).
But this question is mostly like a discussion one, not an answerable ...
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What should I do when an answer to my question is no longer required?
Having moved to new hardware, a problem I was having has gone away. What should I do with the question I raised? Delete it?
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Stopped from asking questions
I posted some questions on main website of Ask Ubuntu and was rated -4.The reason was grammatical mistakes and lack of details (as per my views) so I was stopped from asking questions for three days. ...
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Can we require that questions contain a question mark to nudge users to ask explicit questions?
During review I come across “question” posts that don't actually contain a question. In some cases the question is implied in a statement. In either case it would be better to have an explicit ...
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Can I accept two answers on a question?
Can I accept two answers on a question? Is the points / reputation given to both of the user who answer (15 points / reputation for each accepted answer on a question)?
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Should e-Mail adresses be edited away?
I'm still pretty new to Ask Ubuntu. I've seen some people include their e-mail address in their question.
Is it okay to edit the e-Mail address away as I feel they break the way Ask Ubuntu works?
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Is this question appropriate here?
I asked the following question:
Cannot assign address inside a Docker container
do you think it would be more appropriate for Stack Overflow, or SuperUser? Or is this the right site?
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Can I cross-post the same question in both Super User and Ask Ubuntu?
Is it bad Stack Exchange etiquette to ask a duplicate of an Ask Ubuntu question on Super User and vice versa? (Assuming of course that said question is relevant on both sites.)
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Hi, how can i remove this account?
This particular site of stack exchange is not amusing me, has no function and has over zealous moderators who deleted every single one of my posts, two of which because i mentioned that unity is a bug ...
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Should we or should we not support questions on Unity 8?
You are all aware Unity 8 is not ready yet, so, should questions about it be off topic?
I vote off topic, it is in no way ready yet, perhaps Unix & Linux would take it?
Example question: Snap ...
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Is it on topic to ask for resources? [duplicate]
If I want to find out more about a certain topic but don't have a specific question because I'm so out of my depth I don't even know where to start e.g. "I have some software that I want to package as ...
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Questions "just for curiosity"
Is it acceptable to ask questions "just for curiosity", or should we refrain from that to avoid overloading the site already choked with panicked questions? Also, if we do, should we somehow mark it ...
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Query for Basic information
I feel like every second question lacks the basic information about flavour, release and architecture, so I ask myself:
Why don't we just ask the users to give the output of echo $DESKTOP_SESSION, ...
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What is the best way to gain back my question privileges
For reasons I will not say (let's just say that I made some mistakes), the askubuntu system took away my right to ask questions on the website. I have read that once I have a positive effect on the ...
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Improve my question further in askubuntu
Newbie here as well as Ask Ubuntu. Before posted my first question I have searched a lot in Google but I couldn't find the answer to solve my installation issue problem. So I decided to post, but ...
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How can I ask a question that, by its nature, will be "too broad"?
I'm specifically interested in looking for "gotcha" instances in upgrading Kubuntu 14.04.1 to 16.04, to help me decide whether to upgrade or ride 14.04 another two years. I know there's a newer ...
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How do I interpret this "Your question does not meet our quality standards" error?
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
It does not meet our quality standards.
Thats the message I'm getting while trying to post a question. I've seen it a couple times before, usually ...
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Are EFI/UEFI installation type of question appropriate at Ask Ubuntu?
Searching "ubuntu-12-10 install uefi" gives a google page of Ask Ubuntu Q&A all pointing to same recommendation. (which is make a grub-efi partition before trying to install)
Have asked this type ...
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What is the best practice to show logfiles within a question? [duplicate]
Sometimes it might be useful to paste the content of a log file related to a question. If the part of the log a short one the markdown for code might be good enough to embed the text into the question:...
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Is this the right place to ask a question about installing another OS on an Ubuntu computer?
A few days ago I asked a question on Ask Ubuntu because I needed a way to install Windows on my currently Ubuntu-only computer. It however received some negative feedback from people in the community, ...
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Am I just asking wrong?
I've asked 5 questions since may and got no answers at all. I've been as specific as possible included as many details as possible and generally tried to make my question answerable.
So I can only ...
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How to deal with "un-appreciated" answer? [duplicate]
User A ask question.
User B came across the question, he knew the answer to question.
User B answer the question provided by User A.
User A view the answer.
But.. User A doesn't:
Give any feedback ...
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Why are higher ranked users not flaged for off-topic?
As a newer user on Ask Ubuntu I have seen activity from older (higher ranked) users that they themselves would count as off-topic. For example questions on EOL versions or versions that are soon to ...
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Any ideas on why this question didn't get any responses
I asked this 17 days ago (although I revised the title later).
I don't expect miracles (although sometimes I get them ;) ), but I am surprised at getting nothing.
Is there something I can do/...
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What about EasyBCD?
I just edited the tag easybcd and after I found some questions like How to install EasyBCD? or Can't get bootloader to work using easyBCD. These questions have the answer in Windows.
We know that ...
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Making a 'master thread' for bugs and workarounds for Ubuntu 15.04 issues and bugs?
What does everyone think if we get a single thread going for bugs and workarounds for people with issues relating to 15.04 install. Maybe a wiki type thread. I'm sure a lot of people are coming here ...
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Is there a procedure for making umbrella questions?
I think there are a lot of related questions that could be turned in to umbrella questions.
One example:
How do I set environment variables for cron/upstart?
It could cover ruby, python, and ...
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Are software comparisons allowed and if so how broad are you allowed to be?
Are software comparisons considered on-topic here? I mean Ubuntu software of course, and probably software which is specific to it or at least Linux but runs on Ubuntu. And how broad is considered '...
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Should we modify a question just to fit the answers?
I'm wondering, should I change the sense of a question just to fit my answer? I remember once that Jokerdino told me not to, hence I didn't, but is this an accepted practice?
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We should have an anti-spam filter at the 'Ask a question' stage
We have about 20 to 40 spam posts a day. Why shouldn't there be a feature to prevent this?
Some ideas as to how we can do this:
Search for words, and if post matches... (I've found the most common ...
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How much research effort is expected of Ask Ubuntu users?
What's the expected research effort show by an asker in their question?
I'm not asking about close votes! But normal up and downvotes based on the research level of a question. That's all.
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Are questions about elementary OS off topic even if it's about the kernel?
I'm currently on Xubuntu and I'm so happy with it, but I want to try Elementary OS, I do know that if I ask something about Elementary OS my question will be closed. I'm well aware of that. Elementary ...
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What should I do when an issue is solved but brings me a new issue in the same context?
Trying to install from source a program I get an error in the ./configure command.
I created a question (here) with this error and it was correctly answered and this error is now gone. But after ...
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Is it OK to ask very specific question about Toshiba's ac100 (ARM smartbook)?
I have one of the beautiful Toshiba ac100s. Is it within the scope of askubuntu.com to ask specific questions here? It will be very technical, for example how to get one specific kernel-version for ...
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My question has 10 pictures, but I can't add them beacuse I don't have 10 reputation. What should I do?
I have a question and I write it down and there's 10 picture in it, now after 1 hour of writing it when I wanna post it, I got you need at least 10 reputation to post images. What should I do?
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Should I edit a Question once the Answer has been accepted?
My answer to this question was accepted. However I don't believe the question itself will be useful to others in its current state. Is it appropriate to edit a question to be more meaningful to others ...
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Is it OK to post a link to my question in the general chat room, to publicize it?
If I ask a question and want to draw attention to it, is it OK to post links to it in the general chat room? Or is this considered bad, since there is already a questions feed and if lots of people ...
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Can we compare apps on Ask Ubuntu?
I would like that Ubuntu community discuss a little about which word processor is best to replace MSOffice Word and has the best compatibility with it - LibreOffice Writer, Abiword or Calligra Words. ...
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How do I migrate my question? [duplicate]
For this question:
JDBC Connection Pool details on Glassfish,
can I just copy/past elsewhere, or should I flag and ask for it to be migrated?
What's the procedure?
To get a little bit meta about ...
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Is this question inappropriate for the StackOverflow Q&A format?
I asked a question earlier today (Why isn't there a 64-bit binary for Skype?) and immediately received a number of downvotes (with only 9 views the question had 3 downvotes).
I've since edited the ...
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What should be done (if anything) about the "How to run [Windows Program] in Wine?" questions?
There are a lot of questions about how well specific applications run in Wine:
How well does Microsoft Office Excel work in Wine?
Does Visual Studio Express work well with Wine?
Running Shaiya in ...
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Are questions like 'Where should I report this bug' allowed?
May we ask questions on AskUbuntu if we encounter a bug, and we do not know how/where to report it? For example, one can see black screen and is unsure whether he/she should report it against xorg, ...
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ask for system specifications when asking a questions
I thought it might improve the question quality when you ask a question below the question form there is a form asking for your systems specifications. For example version of Ubuntu running, laptop ...
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How to ask a question with a template already created for answers?
This question has a template already created for answering it. That is, instead of the answer textbox starting out empty, it starts out with this text in it:
[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]
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