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Please take your own question(s) seriously
In general, people who answer questions on AU do their job with a certain pride. We want answers to work. If not, we either remove the answer or edit it until it works for at least the situation of OP,...
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Is it possible to ask a Question you already know and answer it
After reading this question: Ought one to answer one's own question? what happens in the case that you know several questions that will further help the community but you want to make the question ...
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Best way to end a question post
When I ask a question on Ask Ubuntu, I usually end it with some kind of request for knowledge, like "does anybody know the actual meaning of this message?". A lot of newer people end the question with ...
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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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Why are questions no longer titled as questions?
This is rare to see in Meta, but in Ask Ubuntu itself -- I'm sure I am definitely not the only one who's fed up with seeing short summaries in the question box. If you're asking a question, at least ...
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What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific
I don't exactly know why this is the case anyway, but I have quite often seen new questions with the above title ('What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific') as the person asking the question cannot ...
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Allow "homework" questions?
I know different sites have different rules for this, I'm only asking now because this is the first "homework" question I've come across.
Should we allow these types of questions? If so, under what – ...
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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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(How) can we encourage question askers to do some research of their own?
Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you will feed him and his family for a lifetime.
When I first started using Ask Ubuntu, I was all over the easy questions, ...
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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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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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Can we create a "template question"
Some users (especially first time users) ask completely rubbish questions, such as https://askubuntu.com/questions/486830/wi-fi-on-ubuntu-14-04-hp-g70-laptop, they say "unfortunately wi-fi is not ...
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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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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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How long should I wait for an answer on here?
How long should I wait for an answer to my question 18.04.2 authentication error
on here, and in the meantime is there anything I can do to make it more answerable?
I've already included a fair ...
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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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Is it okay to rename questions when the title doesn't reflect what OP really wants to know?
I'm asking about the question How to delete the files of administrator by using guest session. According to my answer there and to the discussion under the other answer, I assume the problem is solved....
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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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Should lots of issues caused by one thing be asked in multiple questions?
There is a question saying that their USB, WiFi and Bluetooth are all broken since the upgrade to 15.10 from 15.04.
Are these multiple questions (because it's 3 different things), or should it be ...
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Are hardware recommendations considered off topic?
Fairly straightforward question, I don't want to clutter up the main site if it is.
Edit: More specifically, hardware recommendations as it applies to driver support and the like in Ubuntu. ...
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How should I use the tags in Meta.AU?
I've found recently that people that ask questions in meta do not correctly tag their questions, and when the community reacts unexpectedly or their issues don't rise awareness to the developer team, ...
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What can be done to increase the quality of questions?
I found this site after I spent some time on tex.stackexchange. Don't take this as me getting on my high horses but compared to the questions on tex.stackexchange the questions on this site has much ...
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Deny cross-posting, but enable site-sharing?
I know cross-posting (writing the same question on more than one SE site) is discouraged and should not be done. I also see the reason for this and agree, but sometimes it is indeed not clear where a ...
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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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Comes ask Ubuntu in different languages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
I am native speaking german. Would be great to have this site in my language.
What should I do?
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How do you handle questions that include Ubuntu pastebin links?
Ubuntu pastebin is a nice online tool for sharing formatted text between users, especially for very large log files for a short period of time, then it expires and is permanently deleted.
Stumbling ...
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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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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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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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Can I ask question that had been asked in other forum by myself?
I had asked for help in podman discussion on Github (see the post here) but no luck getting an answer. Is it OK to copy the content and ask the question here?
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Are questions related to ubuntu as it relates to development on topic?
I'm working on writing a C-daemon for Ubuntu and I wish to make it configurable but I'm new to linux\ubuntu and I don't know the standard way daemon configuration is preformed. Is AskUbuntu an ...
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What are the limits for answer and question lengths?
What are the limits to which answers and questions can be pushed ? I've written quite lengthy answers in the past which seem to be quite complete, but lets pretend there's a question which requires ...
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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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What will happen when all questions are asked?
Over time, obviously more and more questions are asked on this site, and such, many people have the same questions, which are then considered duplicates, but eventually by way of law, eventually we ...
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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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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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Is it appropriate to ask if the Asus X555MA has any known issues running Ubuntu?
I know there have been questions about hardware before, and meta discussions about whether or not they are appropriate, but I can't remember if there was a definite answer.
I'm thinking of the Asus ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Can users raise questions on the day of the announced release date irrespective of time?
Can users raise questions on the day of the announced release date irrespective of time or will they be closed?
To be specific, Ubuntu 20.04 will be released on the 23rd Of April.
But some countries ...
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How to know if an answer is still relevant?
Looking for example at questions Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears and Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace?, both questions include in their answers the ...
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How to transfer a question through Stack Exchange Communities
I've just earned a badge in this popular question I wrote 15 months ago in SuperUser Community. And it attracted me because, even after all this time and 1000 views, it stills not-answered. Thus I got ...
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How do I re-ask a question for a new release?
The accepted answer to this question stopped working when I upgraded to 11.04. What is the preferred way to ask for updated answer?
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If an answer cannot possibly give you what you asked for, please consider accepting nevertheless
On a regular basis, people ask questions with no other possible answer then:
No, that can't be done, because...
Mostly, this is because of a lack of technical understanding of OP, or because people ...
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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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Can I share an Idea about ubuntu here?
I want ask here before share my idea in main ask ubuntu. i think it may be against the website rules.
so is it possible?
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