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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Do we want heavily-downvoted questions to appear on the Meta AU homepage?
MSE was changed so all posts with score exceeding -9999 would show on the home page (formerly, the minimum score to appear on the home page was -8). Per-site Metas were given the option to opt-in to ...
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New to Ubuntu, a bit overwhelmed by help from "Ask Ubuntu" "Ubuntu in Launchpad" and Ubuntu Pro
I've been able to get previous versions of Ubuntu to work in a dual boot capacity before. I've also gotten Linux Mint to work successfully so I have some experience installing and using operating ...
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Can we have a canonical question for Ubuntu on Snapdragon processors?
There are multiple questions for Ubuntu on Snapdragon. I found Can you install Ubuntu on a Snapdragon PC? and Ubuntu on snapdragon laptop.
They are not duplicates of Will my device work with Ubuntu? (...
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Questions I've asked since 2021 are not shown
I've asked numerous questions here on AskUbuntu, usually several per year, but my summary still doesn't show any questions since 2021? I just posted a question a few days ago but can't find it so I ...
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What are the consequences of giving honest feedback? [closed]
I feel an obligation to help others.
It is painful,but I speak the truth.
I volunteer at an animal shelter and at a food bank.
You can choose to try to ban me.
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Why no notification before I was cut off from posting
Why was there no notice in advance that I would no longer be able to be able to ask questions?
I have Cognitive impairment.
I really do my best.
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My question about 24.10 specific Easter Eggs in 24.04 should be on topic now
I asked a question about how to get 24.10 specific easter eggs in Ubuntu 24.04, but it was closed because 24.10 features were not finalized yet.
Now that 24.10 has been released, my question should be ...
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Should I flag an "answer" that doesn't actually answer the question, but was accepted anyway?
This answer to this question: Change from UEFI to Legacy, on AskUbuntu, has been accepted by the original question poster. However, it does not actually answer the OP's question (how to change an ...
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Is there a way to communicate with moderators?
Is there a way to communicate with moderators ?
I flagged a post and have not heard back.
This is not the first time.
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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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Is there any Logout option on this site? [duplicate]
I can't find any Logout button here.
Do I have to be logged in until some timeout apperars?
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how do i get points to answer a question properly that ppl have ruined! [duplicate]
I recommend always use authentic from source packages not random hacker wanabees!!
I have a much safer solution better than chat gpt bs!
through trile and error! and cant even reply and answer better ...
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Can we delete the [x11-unix] tag?
The x11-unix tag seems to have been accidentally created by the user who asked this question org.gnu.emacs - bwrap: Can't mount tmpfs on /newroot/tmp/.X11-unix: No such file or directory.
I don't ...
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Not receiving answers. What steps can I take?
My previous post: https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/20553/bounty-on-my-question has been closed with the following feedback:
Asking for responses to questions with a bounty on them is NOT the ...
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What is the difference between CW and UW? [duplicate]
Community Wiki answers goes to CW but not to Ubuntu Wiki UW
What is the difference between these two websites?
I'm a bit confused on how Wiki works.
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What is happening to AskUbuntu main site?
Since yesterday, https://askubuntu.com/ is in read only mode most of the times. Any idea about the problem and why it is not resolved yet?
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Tag for questions related to Ubuntu EOL
I posted a question about some specifics about Ubuntu EOL at Ubuntu end of life: will snap applications still receive updates?
I wasn't sure how to tag this because it isn't specific to a single ...
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Tag Warnings on Ask Ubuntu
Some time ago, we introduced "just in time" tag warnings on Stack Overflow.
These warnings are meant to provide users with just-in-time information to help them avoid common mistakes in the tag they'...
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Edit queue seems permanently blocked
Many Ask Ubuntu posts are in dire need of editing for basic grammar and clarity. I have the time and the ability to do just that for free. Yet for some reason there is a limit to the daily edits. Why? ...
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Merging the "ati" tag into "amd-graphics"
This tag merge will affect a lot of questions, so I think we should discuss it here before doing it.
To be clear:
all ati questions will be tagged amd-graphics after the merge.
the ati tag will be a ...
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How to format commands
How do I format any system commands or system messages correctly as in
sudo apt-get update
I see that kind of codes with a grey background and I understood earlier that such things have to be ...
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Are we supposed to ask Linux Mint questions here?
I understand Mint and Ubuntu are different distributions, but I've heard Mint described as Ubuntu based. Where is the best place to ask Mint questions?
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What are common canonical questions for our site?
So according to the Gospel of Spolsky 13:4, a core mission of Stack Exchange communities is to stop re-answering the same questions, and instead build a library of canonical answers. When general ...
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Why does my question get locked by on Askubuntu? No apparant reason other than a bully moderator
I am experiencing this unhelpful behaviour accross this community of forums related to stack exchange and stack overflow
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Can we have an integrated filter to detect AI generated content?
Recently, a user generated 10 answers within 45 minutes, and by the formatting they seemed to be all AI generated.
Incidentally, the user asked a genuine question last month, so this is most likely a ...
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AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask Ubuntu
As of February 2 2023, there is a ban on the use of AI-generated content on Ask Ubuntu.
This ban involves:
Deletion of all AI-generated content, whether acknowledged as such or not
Moderator warning ...
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Is there a chatroom or a place where we can send our problems about 24.04?
I do not need the problem to be solved immediately, was thinking about getting more info about which logs, how to get them and where to send em.
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Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 24.04 (a.k.a. Noble Numbat) is now released. As of "Thu Apr 25 15:20:52 UTC 2024", posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still need to meet the other ...
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Why is there a cap on the maximum number of questions per day for non newbie users?
Right now, a user cannot ask more than 6 questions per 24 hours. While this is an effective method to prevent spam, can we increase this for users with higher reputation (say, those with more than 50 ...
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What action should be done to questions in different language [duplicate]
While reviewing the questions, I came across questions that are asked in different languages other than English like this. Since AskUbuntu is an English-only platform, we can let the OP know that the ...
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Wonder why I got downvoted?
It is about this post How come Gnome developers consider Ubuntu 22.04 too old to take up bug reports regarding it?, it shows -1 I wonder why and why in my setting it shows -2?
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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content
We have an opportunity to increase awareness of the Ask Ubuntu prohibition on AI-generated content. Currently we have only two active notification areas:
AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask ...
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
On 24/03/30, a question was posted, whether the backdoor in xz is affecting Ubuntu:
Is Ubuntu affected by the xz backdoor compromise?
I answered few hours later and received 5 upvotes.
My answer was ...
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Let's organize some chat workshops
Some of y'all may remember that way back in the mists of time, we celebrated Ask Ubuntu's 10th birthday with some chat-based workshops. That was pretty cool.
The other day Artur Meinild mentioned that ...
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
What to do when there are two different questions but they can be solved with the same answer (such as "What is 3 + 1" and "What is 2 + 2")?
Look at this question:
Icons from my ...
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UI has been changed?
I have just noticed that the menu has been improved:
Are there other improvements, if any?
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"You have too many pending edits"
I know what this means, but it has been like that for about 24 hours. Only once one of my edits was acknowledged, and then this message again. Are there so many pending edits that people are not being ...
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What does the site look like to a moderator? (2.0)
What does the site look like to a moderator?
Has anything changed from 12 years ago?
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What does this symbol mean?
Really not about Ubuntu, but I have recently noticed some people using this symbol <3 on Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu Meta. What does it mean? Is it some secret code that only certain people ...
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How to bring more attention to a non-duplicate
My question on Ask Ubuntu was flagged as duplicate. The post that was said to be my dupe did not apply to my circumstances, so I edited my question and voted for its reopening.
How many votes do I ...
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Do we support [language-support]?
We have a language-support tag which has the following guidance:
Questions related to the language support provided by Ubuntu.
We also have a language tag which has the following guidance:
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When is the next moderator election?
Recently an election took place on Stack Overflow.
When is the next moderator election on Ask Ubuntu scheduled?
What are the intervals between elections?
Where and when can I participate in the ...
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Can we fix this tag or should we just [uninstall]?
It's been asked about before and asked about again but it seems like the large uninstall tag is still a bit of a miscellany, with the majority of questions in it being about uninstalling software, ...
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Goodbye Gunnar Hjalmarsson 1958.10.06 - 2023.12.20
The Ask Ubuntu Community has lost a long time contributor from its ranks of esteemed contributors with the recent death of Gunnar Hjalmarsson. Gunnar was a highly valued contributor to Ask Ubuntu for ...
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Why can't we edit comments?
I posted a comment, and I can't edit it anymore. Why?
We can edit questions, even after a while.
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About a post in AskUbuntu that received a downvote
Yesterday I posted in Ask Ubuntu a question about dnsmasq, and it was a large post with all important details, what I have tried already, the error messages, and it became really long - more than I ...
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Is this the best place to ask complex questions?
I've somehow fried my pc trying to install ubuntu and have a lot to write to describe symptoms, etc. Is this where people do that kind of thing or is there somewhere less official where people go for ...
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Is the Ask Ubuntu community generally more friendly than Stack Overflow - If so, why?
This is not a rant! These are my initial thoughts in a discussion which I'm hoping other people will want to engage with. I want to hear your opinions on the following questions which I put to you.
I ...
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If I have useful information to add to an answer, why do I need reputation to post it and how do I get it?
I was able to figure out some useful details to a question that was asked about the .epub format...but when I wanted to share what I found (which was not in the answers), I can't because of the ...
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How to see the user's reputation graph?
My browser displays the user reputation in the user's Activity page without a graph:
How can I display the user reputation with a graph, as shown in the image below?
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