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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Why questions related to ubuntu-one client for windows and osx are ontopic here?
Why questions related to ubuntu-one for windows and osx are ontopic here?
Is it an exception? If no why questions related to firefox(It is also part of ubuntu) for windows are offtopic here?
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Where can I ask for help about a 14.04 (EOL) installation?
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?
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Ask Ubuntu's stance on Homework-type questions
Although similar Meta questions have been asked before and have been well-received, I still find that there are many homework-like questions which are posted from time to time on Ask Ubuntu, most of ...
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convert comment as answer
Hi I have gone through a Question in Ask Ubuntu main site where we have the answer as in comment format. If we can convert the comment as answer then we can close the similar Question like this and ...
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What should I do If a bountied question is a duplicate of another
I came across a question that has a bounty on it. After reading the question, I felt that it might be 85-90% similar to an answer to another question that I answered. I also know that we are not ...
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The quality of the duplicates is so bad that I want to cry
Earlier today, I was pointed towards a bunch of question that were duplicated one of the other. But while reviewing the stuff linked to the question I noticed that most of those questions don't have ...
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How do I delete/abandon my question when it has answers?
It's a story you hear all too often. I asked a question. I got some answers. They showed effort so I voted them up. I found some time to actually try them out. Then... I changed my mind and did ...
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Gender breakdown of the site
I hadn't realized this until just today, but I had assumed that all the other Ask Ubuntu users were male, but then I saw a username that appeared to contain a female first name and realized that women ...
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Isn't Ask Ubuntu targeted towards end-users (GUI) rather than "advanced" command-line users?
recently two of my rejects were rejected on the basis of "removing important information in favour of one-click installs" and "removing content that has value to people who like the command line (...
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Do we need a linked report to close bug questions?
In a recent question about problems with Ask Ubuntu, the topic of low-quality, incomplete, pseudo-bug-report questions came up. From What to do with questions that describe known bugs?, I was under ...
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Should we have a consistent naming scheme?
This is very much related to this question about merging tags.
This goes one step further to assume that we SHOULD.
What should the naming convention be?
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Site Attribute Questions (Top 7) [closed]
OK, so as the beta testers we're supposed to work on key aspects of the site's attributes. Taking a cue from other betas, I've made this list so we can easily find them all. I'll also tag the key ...
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Why is edit question feature unavailable?
I wanted to edit this question for giving some sanity to it, but saw that the Edit feature is seen disabled. Why is it so?
N.B: I can edit other questions.
Image: Edit feature is shown disabled (...
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Is Bitcoin on-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
I stumbled across this question. Just in case something happens to that question or its comments, here is a Wayback Machine link. I wasn't quite sure about if Bitcoin was on-topic, so I didn't flag it ...
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Community bumping on AU
The Community user bumps old, not-well-answered questions regularly.
While that maybe a good fit on most SE sites, I'm not sure of its applicability to AU. We follow a strong and strict release policy....
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Is it OK to post, and how should we deal with, non-English (or partly non-English) answers intended for translation? [duplicate]
Questions in languages other than English, or which contain non-English text and translated text, have been discussed before on meta.
But what about answers that are written in other languages? How ...
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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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Let's reopen this on-topic question about using Ubuntu software in Ubuntu [duplicate]
This question is, and has always been, on topic.
The OP's reading of the FAQ is correct. A question about using built-in Ubuntu software and third party Ubuntu software on Ubuntu is a question about ...
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On-topic? What games can be played by two people on the same computer
I want to know what games can be played by two people on the same computer.
The highest-voted for this meta question is:
a "best game" one is far too open ended. You'd end up with every game in ...
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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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Can I recover my deleted account
I was a community member since a while and decided to delete my account once. Then I came back with the same email but I lost all my reputations even that my Q/A and comments are still available under ...
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What's the final word on "What X are available" and "List of X" type questions?
What is our final decision on questions like these?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/40606/what-arcade-platform-or-role-playing-games-are-available
What IDEs are available for Ubuntu?
Our FAQ is ...
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How should questions about SPDY be tagged?
This web protocol is becoming more and more popular considering its' value, but it's not in the list of tags.
How should a question be tagged since this tag isn't here?
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Tag Synonym Request: Asus-Related Stuff
Recently, Asus tags have been getting created left and right. I'd like to propose the following synonyms:
asus-pc -> asus
asus-laptop -> asus
The ASUS tag seems good enough to cover almost any ...
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Links in reviews, good or bad?
First of all, Its is a good feature : fake posts to check whether the reviewer is paying attention or not.
But It seems to have a little problem. One could easily find out that its a test like : ( ...
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Why is there no refund on bounty, when the question is not answered at all?
I know that the bounty is there to make your question more relevant or popular, yes.
And this is ALWAYS given, even if the question is not answered, i know.
BUT if the question is not off topic and ...
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Posting a workaround for a bug?
Background: Just recently my Ubuntu Software Center stopped working, and after a considerable amount of searching, I found the answer here. I thought that this is very good knowledge, so I'm ...
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What are the reasons to downvote answers?
I'm not asking why a specific answer get downvoted but specifically why would you normally downvote an answer.
This should help newbies understanding why their answers were downvoted even though ...
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Should I ask the same question again?
A long time ago I wrote a question on ask ubuntu ( How can I install another version of Ubuntu on my computer and then uninstall it without messing up my bootup process? ) and I never got a great ...
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Should questions asking how to report bugs for EOL releases be closed?
I have recently come across this question (probably abandoned) asking how to file a bug for a specific issue on Ubuntu 10.10. 10.10 will no longer be supported as of April 10th this year, which is ...
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Is it considered on-topic, If a user needs help to get back only Windows after he deleted Ubuntu partition?
If a user, who have dual booted system (with Windows) accidentally deletes Ubuntu partition and He now only interested to get Windows back, should we help him considering that, He fell into the ...
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Flagging Duplicate questions when answers are not accepted
What do you do when you find there is a duplicate question which has some answers, but none of the answers are accepted or upvoted. Do you still flag it as a duplicate even though the OP may not get ...
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Losing privilege with points lost in setting bounties
Is it appropriate for users to lose privileges with handing out bounties? I've recently posted a bounty worth 400 points and consequently lost even the simple privilege of commenting everywhere. I ...
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I've found a duplicate user; what should I do?
I just stumbled upon this question:
I can't install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new computer
And in the sidebar for this question I found this Related question:
I can't install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new ...
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Why I cannot answer some questions in askubuntu.com/unanswered (no answer-field)? [duplicate]
I just joined Ask Ubuntu and wanted to answer one question at https://askubuntu.com/unanswered but there is no answer field to enter my answer. Why?
I have 1 reputation and I tried to contribute to ...
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Why don't I get my reputation back when I answer the question myself?
I posted this answer to my own question on which I had set a bounty. I lost the rep immediately when I set the bounty = OK, that's expected. I didn't get the bounty back when I added the best answer ...
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Tags related to languages
I have seen a user tag a question with swedish, and there may be other languages. Should such tags be avoided, instead using language, language-support or localization?
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Misleading review test
While going through the review queue I was shown the first answer of a new user, correct, well explained and perfectly formatted. I thought this was strange, so I opened the original question page and ...
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How to choose StackExchange site for a linux question
I'm troubleshooting various issues with my Ubuntu system. I've been asking them in the Ask Ubuntu forum, but they haven't been getting a lot of attention. That could easily be my fault for various ...
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Does it make sense to kill this question?
I noticed this old software-recommendation question is closed (rightfully so, imo) as "too broad":
Video editing software options?
I also noticed it has attracted some delete votes too.
Does it ...
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What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
I am curious as to the mentality behind upvoting/downvoting questions...
I can understand the logic behind upvoting/downvoting answers "ok if an answer is bad then downvote it" sure this ...
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Is it appropriate to Ask question and provide an Answer to topic which is not mentioned?
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My question is about when somebody have a solution (e.g., specific problem which affect a couple of people), but nobody ask for different reasons. This question is similar as Should we seed the ...
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Why can't I comment on other questions/answers? [duplicate]
I looking for a diary program, that I can use for writing things, shopping, doctor apointments, and other things for my wife and I found an answer.
But I can't ask the guy a question like other ...
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Why do one post sometimes off-topic post like "How To Boost Marathon Stamina?"
Recently I saw a post saying:
"How To Boost Marathon Stamina?"
Why people do post these type of off-topic post on Ask Ubuntu? These are automated robots for posting ads or something else?
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Flagging has twice option as "it is duplicate" & "duplicate of"
For flagging as duplicate there is twice option as following:
At main list > "it is duplicate..."
Under "It should be closed for another reason" > "duplicate of..."
Now what is difference between ...
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PSA: Quantal is now off topic
Yeah, that time again, we will have from here on each 6 months new EOL announcements so, here the general plan for questions:
New questions about Quantal 12.10 that only affect Quantal (e.g., APT ...
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Are computer brand tags necessary?
Within the past few hours (of writing) have had two tag synonym requests to clean up branding tags and to unify them under some centralized tags.
However, this brings up the following question:
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Another small bug in the oli's cleanup user script
The user Alvar deleted the question
https://askubuntu.com/questions/46280/
It remains on "My Open Allocations"
I can "give up" and remove it, but will leave it for the moment, not sure if you wish ...
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What technologies are being used for StackExchange sites?
My interest is in both backend and frontend technologies.
If possible some idea about hardware is also very interesting for me.
Thanks.
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Let's burninate [mint]
If Linux Mint is off topic, why the heck do we have the tag [mint]?
How does it help to tag Ubuntu questions with it?
This user wrongly assumed Mint was on topic due to the existence of said tag: ...
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