Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Farewell, y'all
Dear fine gentlebeings of Ask Ubuntu and other hitchhikers of the internet,
DON'T PANIC (imagine this writtenin large, friendly letters).
It is with a heavy heart that after being a moderator for ...
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Why do valid questions get closed without providing any help?
I run into this problem often. Case in point:
19.10 seems to have broken suspend on my MB Pro
This user has a reputation of 111, appears to be an active contributor, and actually has the same ...
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Forum etiquette (edited question)
I Am new here. I wrote a question, and then saw a notification, clicked it, and it is a version of my question with red/green letters and strikethrough, like it had been proofread and edited.
I do ...
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Can these VMWares be un-merged?
In 2012, a question was asked about the installation of VMWare player. Some months later, fossfreedom merged that question into How do I install VMware Player?. But in the latter one, the questioner ...
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Cross-posting okay from SuperUser? [duplicate]
There's a SuperUser question which is on-topic here, and has some answers. Normally, I'd recommend the OP to delete and repost here, but this question has existing answers that would be lost.
Is ...
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Mass duplicate flagging of “What kernel version does ubuntu X ship with?”
I propose that these questions:
Determine which kernel ships with which Ubuntu version
4.0.6 kernel in which ubuntu version?
what kernel version comes with ubuntu 10.04.1?
What kernel version comes ...
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Suggestions to limit the large amount of unanswered questions?
After searching http://askubuntu.com I was looking through all the unanswered questions and its frustrating trawling through 607 unanswered questions at 15 per page (approx 9,105) and it appears that ...
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Can [maintenance] be kept in good working order?*
*Credit to Eliah Kagan for the title
We have a tag maintenance which currently has 38 questions in it.
The questions relate to a miscellany of topics, since "maintenance" is a very broad category of ...
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It's time for me to go
I’ve been honored to serve as a moderator here on Ask Ubuntu for almost six years now, but I’m sorry to announce that I will be resigning that position effective immediately. I’ve lost trust with ...
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Large number of -1 posts
Seems lately there are an excessive number of -1 votes on unanswered & answered questions, majority of which are unwarranted.
Just 'fixed' probably 10 found in the latest 50.
What's going on?
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What are the 'migration quality requirements'?
Recently, I'd suggested a post be migrated. It was denied because the post failed to meet 'migration quality requirements'. Where are those defined? I have read https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/03/22/...
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Privileged users reviews
I am suspecting that (some) of my answers are being reviewed by high privileged users, like I review first answers for example.
If my suspicion is right, and as I feel part of this community, I ask ...
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How can I interact with someone who has commented on my post without adding another comment? What are some ways that I can improve my question?
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: In Windows Terminal running Ubuntu, how can I make the default directory be ~ (/home/jake) instead of / (root)?
Someone commented on my question and told ...
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One of the worst questions ever was deleted but
I had voted to close as "too broad" and wonder why that doesn't show in the comment section?
I never heard of Ubuntu. What's Ubuntu?
On second sober thought maybe my VTC was "Primarily Opinion ...
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OP rejected my edit and then copy-pasted it
I suggested an edit to this answer a few days ago. The edit was approved by a moderator, but was then rejected by the OP of the answer. Which is totally fine, since my interpretation of what the OP ...
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What makes this question on-topic?
A couple of days ago, I voted to close this qestion as off-topic.
It seems I'm still the only one who think it's off-topic, probably the question has been removed from the review-queue by another ...
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How is this question “off-topic”?
I posted this Q&A style after helping another Kubuntu user solve his problem.
Why does KDE Notificaions show an update that doesn't exist?
Yes the problem is related to a bug but the ...
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Broken links starting with http://%20https://
An edit suggestion like this pretty often appears in the review queue.
These edits are generally fixing http://%20https:// to https://. (%20 means an escaped space in URLs.)
Does anyone know why ...
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Content scraping [duplicate]
I noticed recently that a YouTube user is scraping Ask Ubuntu (and possibly other stackexchange sites) and posting videos with the questions and answers. A few examples:
My wireless is hard-blocked
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A VLQ flag invalidated by a minor edit
I have flagged an answer as very low quality since it barely can help OP to solve their problem (see my comment there).
The answer got two “Recommend Deletion” votes when reviewed but then the review ...
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Editing posts: number of edits vs reputation
I'm still below the reputation to edit posts without them needed to be peer reviewed.
Suppose that I have 1000 approved edits.
Then comes along a user with enough reputation to edit posts without ...
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Is it the time to redefine “end of life”?
Based on my comments here and my messages in Raiders of the Lost Downboat, I think the term "end of life" is sometimes confusing and may be misleading for new users. As of now, one of the closing ...
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Has Lubuntu 16.04 LTS reached End of Public Support?
Text in the last paragraph at this web link seems to limit flavour support: "Maintenance updates are provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Base, and Ubuntu Kylin....
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Where is the border between Ubuntu and Windows while the questions are WSL related? [duplicate]
Recently I've provided answers on few questions related to WSL, but, IMO, they are more Windows related rather than Ubuntu. For example:
How can I 'open in terminal' when using Ubuntu ...
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Not enough reputation points to post an answer
I'm an infrequent user of Ask Ubuntu, and have fallen into the same trap a few times now...
I see a question I know the answer to, take up to an hour to figure out what I did to solve the problem, ...
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Where is the line of topicality where WSL is involved?
Q0: Where is the line of topicality where WSL is involved?
Q1: Now that Ubuntu can be run on Windows using WSL, I see many questions about windows-subsystem-for-linux Are these questions a better fit ...
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What is the logic behind editors losing reputation when a question is removed?
Before marking this as a duplicate of this related question, take into account that my question is about the reason why this happens, not the cause of it, which is what the answer to that question ...
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Is Edubuntu 14.04 supported by askubuntu.com?
https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic stated in part when I wrote this question:
Questions that you may ask:
Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors including: Edubuntu (14.04), ...
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Proposed edit rejected - new edition is almost the same and didn't solve some problems
I proposed an edit on this post. It was rejected with the reason
This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have been changed.
The new ...
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unpleasant comment
I got into a difficult situation where I can't use my primary laptop. I posted a question on Ask Ubuntu seeking for help and the first comment I received feels arrogant. is it OK? IMHO it doesn't ...
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How often is [frequency] useful?
We have 51 questions tagged frequency. This seems like an extremely general, cross-cutting concept that isn't useful as a tag. However, most questions tagged frequency are questions about CPU ...
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Feature request: canned answers
It would be nice to have boiler-plate answers we can post without having to type them out all the time.
Something akin to this: I don't know where to post this
Forgive me for poorly worded ...
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Should apache2.4 be a synonym of apache2?
I'm at fault here, as I first created that tag. However, I agree with @terdon's answer on another question that, separate tags for separate versions of a tool aren't helpful unless there was a big ...
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Is this question about software recommendations on topic? [duplicate]
What to use to backup server admin files to Google Drive?
I'd like to schedule periodic backups of admin files in an Ubuntu
server to Google Drive but in a way that the server only uploads the
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Should I award a bounty to a non-accepted answer (but what if)?
In general, this meta post would have an objective answer of "yes" or "no" with simple reasoning; however, I have added "(but what if)" because I am looking for additional answers in case of not-so-...
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Raise visibility of self-answer by awarding bounty to self
So I posted a brilliant Q and A on how to resize partitions when you don't have physical access to Ubuntu as I'm seeing this happen all the time and couldn't find any specific answers here on how to ...
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Should this question be closed or answered?
This question concerns running minikube, a Kubernetes VM based on VirtualBox. The OP is experiencing the error as minikube can't be run on a nested VM (Windows, running Ubuntu on Vbox, runnin minikube)...
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Duplicate vs Linked vs Related. Best practice for site navigation
I believe that it is very beneficial for related questions to be linked together for easy navigation. When you use the duplicate tag, it has the benefit of linking questions together even if the ...
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How does this works?
I have "earned " some popularity badge AND STILL GETTING this.
It is forum owner privilege to administer the forum to his / her liking. Somehow it seems very difficult for owners to realize that ...
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Can we just add [helpfile] to [documentation]?
According to tag excerpt of documentation:
For questions regarding written documentation such as manuals, help files, policies, instructions, or guides.
But there exists helpfile too which in my ...
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Do we stop *supporting* external software?
My question is triggered by this question, which has some close votes due to being off-topic, and a comment saying that it is unsupported.
14.04 appears to be the most recently supported ...
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Methods in our madness: Suggesting a consistent reply when HW info is useful but missing
I would like to suggest more consistent methods may help us with some of our questioners seeking help.
Nearly always, we need more info, so I have created a little boilerplate I trot out when folks ...
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Should I notify about edits in the question comments?
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: Using chown successfully but not actually changing user ownership in Ubuntu bash on Windows 10?
A user in the comments gave me some input on how to edit my ...
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Where can I ask for help on a 14.04 install?
Since this Exchange will not help me with a 14.04 bug, where can I go to ask the community for support on 14.04? Thanks.
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Sad question reopen time?
OK, so this is a really sad question but not everyone is familiar with the architecture of GNU/Linux¹ nor do they know the history of GNU and Linux and the very big personalities of Linus and RMS.
So ...
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Duplicate may be duplicate of a question, but not the one it was marked as a dupe of
I installed lubuntu desktop thru the terminal but my laptop reboots still as ubuntu was marked as duplicate of Using multiple desktop environments
Compare the questions and the answers.
In the first ...
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Is it OK to mark a question as a dupe when the OP might require significant additional knowledge to use the answers to the existing question?
Disclaimer: I answered the question that I believe was incorrectly marked as a duplicate.
This question, in which the OP accidentally changed the permissions of one system directory, was marked as a ...
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What is the appropriate action on the answers by the original developer/author of the project regardless of the content?
I'm in little confusion today. While reviewing Low Quality Posts, I encountered this post. I was curious that why the answerer is so confident. So, I just viewed their profile and this site and found ...
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Disagree with audit
So I was reviewing, and this answer had to be reviewed.
I added a comment explaining that this didn't solve the hot corner part of the question and was probably better as a comment on the OP, and it ...
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How can we be safe about code from this site that we install?
There are a lot of people who code solutions and post it in forums like this one. I think, maybe I'm wrong because I'm a beginner, that these people are able to introduce "evil code". Is some ...
