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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Software recommendation tags
I'm surprised no one brought this up before, but there are both software-recommendation and software-recommendations tags around representing the same thing.
Fix?
EDIT
Okay, found out too late that ...
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Ask Ubuntu logo download link
From which website can I download the Ask Ubuntu logo?
I found this website which contains logos of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange: https://stackoverflow.design/brand/logo/, but there is no Ask ...
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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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Mint "tag warning" proposal
I propose that we create a "tag warning" for mint, because it seems like we are getting a lot of OT questions about Mint.
Now you say, this is a dupe!
Well yes, sorta, but nothing came out of it. ...
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Is this not an incomplete answer? (low quality review)
I would expect it to also mention how to check folder permissions and, if required, to modify them. Perhaps I should not have recommended deletion, but modify it or add a comment. Yet, the system ...
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where do I report usability bugs? [closed]
I have some beef with the way Ubuntu does some right click options a usability bug. Where do I report it? thanks!
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Security against malicious script edits
So upon working on an old Linux system that hadn't been touched in a while, I ran into an issue related to having 32-bit Google Chrome installed. I found this question that the original poster ...
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What to do about disingenuous edit?
This question has an edit pending review, by the OP, to change the operating system and tag from ElementaryOS to Ubuntu 15.04. I'm assuming the OP has done this so he'll get an answer, despite EOS ...
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"Unanswered" forgotten
Why are "hot" questions displayed first in Ask Ubuntu?
Shouldn't the "Unanswered" be first?
My observation tells me that more than half of the questions in Unanswered are never answered.
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Why no extra downvote with spam flag any more? [closed]
When I flag an answer as spam, it simply flags it up and doesn't add an extra downvote, previously though I would downvote the question/answer, and then upon the spam flag the system would give it ...
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Are questions off-topic that are thought not to be but turn out to be?
I recently noticed this question Wierd youtube logo today, which clearly has nothing to do with Ubuntu, however if it had turned out to be a virus or something that was specific to Ubuntu or something ...
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Can anonymous users post?
I know this is the case on some sites, but is it on this one? Can anonymous users (users who do not have an account) post?
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Questions that have been asnwered, but the OP no longer has an account so can't accept an answer
It's really bugging me, and I think that something needs to be done about it, I keep on finding questions like this one which have very good answers, and some of the answers have a lot of upvotes, and ...
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Are questions about how to upgrade to an Alpha release off-topic? [duplicate]
Are questions that ask for instructions on how to upgrade to an Alpha release off-topic if they don't ask for any information about how to use the Alpha release etc, but only ask how in the current ...
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Was my answer deleted in error?
In re my answer in:
UEFI or Legacy? Which is advised and why?
Another user commented that if I had a new question, I should ask it. I did not have a new question. I was attempting to provide some ...
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How do I reply to a user who tagged me in a comment?
I've seen that there's no such feature as a pm system as stated on the answer to this question and I perfectly understand why;
The problem is that a new user has no way of replying to inbox since:
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Can we have the tag game-controller?
Can we have the tag game-controller with joystick and gamepad as synonyms?
Excerpt:
Questions related to using game controllers like gamepads and joysticks with Ubuntu.
I tried looking around on ...
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Specify a menu in a answer
If I answer somebody saying him that he must go to the wheel menu that is on the top-right corner of the screen, how can I do? before now I used a extended description as this.
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Attaching a screen shot in comments
I had posted a question regarding disk management - someone while helping me, wanted me to post screen shot of Gparted - screen shot is gathered by me, but while replying his comments, I am not able ...
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Why does my profile say I have no questions asked and one bronze when there should be more?
I suspect I do not understand the mechanics of the Q&A system here - but it is puzzling just the same.
This morning I had 21 reputation and three bronze, while now I see 21 reputation and one ...
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StackExchange Password Reset deleted previous posts
For some reason my password didn't work after I logged out. I had made some posts. I did a password reset and now my previous posts are totally gone. But everything else, the profile, etc.. was there....
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Android App doesn't give me all options
Using the android app, I can't close, edit, or even use mod privileges at all. Is that done for a reason, or is it a bug?
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Declined flag for new answer duplicating existing ones
I had a flag declined for this reason:
This answer does not add anything constructive to existing answers. – muru 22 hours ago declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical ...
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Anwers converted to comments
I have been trying to help by answering some people problems.
Why are some of my answers to people post converted to comments?
thanks
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Intermittent bug post closed for wrong reason
This question was closed as not reproducible, but actually confirms this bug perfectly. Should it be re-opened and closed for the right reason (as a bug)?
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Should I approve suggested edits on EOL questions?
I've came across this question which is about 13.04, I flagged it EOL. A few minutes later I met this suggested edit. It's a minor spelling edit.
What do you do in these situations? Do you approve or ...
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remain activity for badges
I want to know how many work I should do to earn specific badge. Examples are a lot for instance how many I edit remain for me to obtain related badge? questions are most at this type: How many work I ...
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How to deal with answers wich clearly shows that answerer did not read/understood question?
In short, often happens that a quite simple question got a quite fast answer but answer is not applicable since answerer did not read/understood the question properly. I understand the language could ...
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Are suspend/power management problems on or off-topic?
This has been said several times already, but apparently we need to make a Meta Q explaining all the reasons why a question will be considered a Bug and hence closed as off-topic. So this is one of ...
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question deleted - reputation is gone, but the tag rating is still there
recently i answered on a question, with maybe not the best answer there is, but it was accepted as the answer to the question.consequently i received my reputation, but someone voted my answer down....
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Flag did not get answered
I have flagged this question 6 days ago as duplicate, but my flag is still active to this day. Usually it takes 2 days at max to get it accepted/declined.
Please understand I am not complaining about ...
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Boot related tags, should we synonymize them all?
I've seen that more often that most, multi-boot, triple-boot, dual-boot are usually about the boot process. Shouldn't we synonymize them all?
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Answer got downvoted but user removed the question
So I answered a question about a Internet connection problem where the connection worked but there was no Internet. Naturally I suggested to check the DNS settings and I got my answer downvoted.. A ...
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Should we answer more than is asked?
Sometimes, in a question, the OP asks about a specific problem they face in a larger attempt to do something (this explanation is probably not very clear, see this question and karel's answer for an ...
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Where is the number of questions which have an open bounty?
I used to see a number of questions which have an open bounty in FEATURED tab. Now it has disappeared. Why? Again I have to do a patchwork to this site?
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How to know if the question asker got his query resolved if he doesnt mark it as solved?
Sometimes the question ansker just sees the answer, but doesnt bother to reply or to mark an answer as solved.What should be done in that case?
Is there any way to know whether
an answer that one ...
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Kill `parallel-port` tag with fire
The title is pretty descriptive: can we kill the parallel-port tag with fire?
Only 2 questions are affected by this tag, and LTP is a dead technology, pretty much it can be absorbed by the hardware ...
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What's this site designed with? [duplicate]
I'm interested in knowing how this site is built? I'm particularly interested in the self moderation system. I's very much like the one on stack overflow, or OpenERP. Is there a CMS, or framework ...
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Possibly bad merge
I've just noticed that one of my questions has been merged with another question. I've no problem with this.
However the text of the other question doesn't seem to match the question title and ...
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What is the "Ubuntu" referring to in "Ask Ubuntu"?
This question is based on this answer.
I thought here we use "Ubuntu" to mean the Ubuntu operating system only, so the following quote from Jorge Castro confused me:
This site is "Ask Ubuntu", it ...
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This question gave me a solution but now I have another issues
I wanted to make useful an old Dell c600: started this question: Install lubuntu 12.04 on an old Dell c600 : Video issues
It fixes the issues with my video with the puppy idea, but now I'm trying to ...
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Change account login
Currently I am logging with launchpad,Lanchpad id logins with yahoo id, I want to change account login details and login directly through yahoo Id. How can I do this with keeping same points and ...
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Why my reputation go down suddenly? Serial upvoting reversed
Many times my reputation is decreased
I found writing: Serial upvoting reversed
What does it mean?! what the wrong i did.
This issue repeated 3 times till now
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This question should be re-opened
I think, this question about customizing the themes should be re-opened, because the master questions are not really asking this question.
Master question 1: How can I configure Unity?
This question ...
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ask ubuntu forum and a mailing list
Can people post to this forum from a mailing list?
For example, would it be possible to use the forum software here in such a way that you never needed to use a web browser? Could you do it all by e-...
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Gmail & Google Mail Are Linked to the same account for Virgin Media customers causing Ask Ubuntu to create two accounts
Virgin Media use Google Mail as their email client and because of this my toby[dot]whaymand [at] googlemail [dot] com account defaults to mytobywhaymand [at] gmail [dot] com account which has caused ...
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Getting asked for two-step verification code, but I'm not getting notification on my phone or email
I have an account, however, when I go to login, it asks for the two-step verification code and I don't think I ever set that up. If I did, I'm not getting it on my phone or on my email account.
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How to paste an image in the clipboard to SE sites with Ubuntu?
I have one problem in pasting photo in stack exchange SE site IDE, and that is:
Stack exchange writing IDE don't let paste the photo by Ctrl+v, and I
must save the photo in my Ubuntu then upload it, ...
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Does this kubuntu related question belong to Ask Ubuntu or to a KDE forum?
A few days ago my display in Kubuntu 18.04 suddenly was magnified as if, from that time onward, a virtual display has been kept in memory which is perhaps twice as large vertically and horizontally as ...
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At what point do releases become supported on AskUbuntu? [duplicate]
Is there a policy regarding at what point a future release becomes supported? In a couple of questions today (the comments) it has been suggested that support might be at the official release point, ...