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 the hatred....only here
why the hatred? Only on askubuntu is just about every question down-voted. take this:
failed to start dockerd after installing docker with snap (artful, 17.10)
even when there is a comment, like "...
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Missing comments. Who deleted them?
Ethernet is disabled after reboot - Ubuntu server 20.04.3
Question posted yesterday.
I left a comment requesting more info from the OP. OP responded with info, and then pinged me with a comment to let ...
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Is CAELinux Supported on Ask Ubuntu?
The Alternate Title is:
At What Point Does an Official Ubuntu Flavor Become Off-Topic on Ask Ubuntu?
It must be agreed that a Live Ubuntu install is on-topic on Ask Ubuntu.
It must also be agreed ...
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Memory leak (Very relevant to 18.04/GNOME 2.6+) Question put on hold for being opinion based, but it is not
I recently had this question that I asked put on hold.
Memory leak on 18.04-- Is it even worth upgrading? (do you have memory leak issues?)
Now, this is not an opinion-based question. Some computers ...
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Are edits like this OK?
We all reject edits that change the meaning of posts but I came across this one and it adds meaning to the post that was never given by the OP.
Here is the original post
and here is the edited ...
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Third Party Software - where do we draw the line on 'on topic'?
The Question was:
I need to use the Creative Cloud for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc for work so I'd like to install a very minimal windows 10, in Ubuntu VirtualBox, so I can run just what's necessary ...
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What is this 'hammer'?
I'm sure that at some point I knew this, but I have forgotten now, and can't remember how to remember, so I thought that I would ask, what exactly is the mod-hammer, and what does it mean to give ...
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1K close votes!!! Any celebrations?
Yes!! Finally we have reached the 1k close votes milestone!!
I Heartily congratulate all 3k rep users(except the stewards and others who try to shorten the list) for letting the queue to grow up to ...
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It seems 15.10 has too many problems, is this natural or Canonical should resolve the bugs? [closed]
It seems that Ubuntu 15.10 is bringing up a lot of questions here on Ask Ubuntu. Is this natural? (Newbies getting excited to actually test it out, they know nothing so a lot of problems/questions ...
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Should we have Meta posts where people can vote for Development codenames?
I was reading this today, it is where people can suggest code names for upcoming Ubuntu versions.
Do you think we should take part by taking suggestions here?
I am sure the devs would see it and it ...
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More Nvidia problems than anything else?
In the past 3-4 months I've noticed that on the main site, there is a ratio of about 5:1 referring Nvidia graphics questions than anything else, and I'm wondering why? I do understand that NVidia ...
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Why are people voting down my good posts?
I mostly post on the main site but since this is about that site itself I decided this belonged on meta. I needed hep with upgrading to VMware Worstation 11 but Workstation said I needed drivers for ...
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Can we not use sh here?
bash is the default login shell in Ubuntu. Most users use bash for scripting. Some answers use sh as the interpreter, even if the question mentioned bash (force of habit, I assume). (For example, a ...
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If a question has nothing to do with one tag, or it's tagged wrongly, shouldn't I remove it?
If an user unknowingly or not use or add the wrongs tags, isn't the community task to correct them (I mean the tags, through if the user ask for guidance it's cool for me too, everyone loves to teach, ...
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How to pragmatically deal with down-votes on a good question when you are the author of the questions?
Recently someone down-voted a question I posted on Ask Ubuntu which was a very good question. I do not give a damn but is it alright to sit and see the down-vote on a good question or is there a way ...
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Needlessly closed a question?
This question was closed as off topic.
LightDM login screen configuration
Now LightDM is used with ubuntu and Ubuntu Mate. The DM, greeter, and setting package are available in ubuntu.
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Good idea to remove EOL release questions?
Like the title suggest since it has no relevance anyways, especially, the questions that don't have an accepted answer.
I think it would be great to do this for a cleaner site.
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Combine [vi] and [vim] tags
We should combine the [vi] and the [vim] tags.
From the [vi] tag wiki:
Questions about the text editor "vi" or "vim"
I am not sure whether to keep the [vi] tag or the [vim] tag, but I don't think ...
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Embedded Video(& Youtube) on AskUbuntu Questions & Answers? [duplicate]
How is it possible to embed a video when we submit a new question or answer? Till now, this feature is only applied for images. Any ideas on how to solve this or is this feature currently in progress ...
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How is my question "primarily opinion-based"?
I asked a question about the future stability of packages in the Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA. I wasn't particularly hopeful of receiving answers, but when my question was put on hold as "primarily ...
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Is it possible for beginners to suggest tags?
Seriously is it possible to let beginners suggest tags? I tried to create the tag XFCE-desktop which is the large package I had to reinstall, but was told I did not have 300 points. It is more to the ...
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Are software comparisons allowed and if so how broad are you allowed to be?
Are software comparisons considered on-topic here? I mean Ubuntu software of course, and probably software which is specific to it or at least Linux but runs on Ubuntu. And how broad is considered '...
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When a version specific tag alone is good in a single question?
Ok, I'm here so people can point me out where my logic is wrong. I'm talking about the version specific tags.
Every time I create, see, modify, processes a question or answer using the queues, ...
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Require obligatory user registration! [duplicate]
Ok, I'm mad... why? because users that need to use Live sessions use the cookie registration, etc... then when that live session is deleted because they restart, reinstall, re... whatever, we get 2, 3,...
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Can we burninate [prompt]?
I don't see much point of the prompt tag, and it only has ~100 questions tagged with it.
Shall we burninate it?
P.S. Let's also nuke lag
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Can I redirect questions to Ubuntu forums when needed? [closed]
I understand that AU is for questions about how to use ubuntu software and that is conflicting me regarding questions that are about support or fixing something that the users can't solve and needing ...
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Time zone of user in profile as optional field
Some users put their timezone with location. For example India (GMT+5:30). It helps other to understand availability of an user.
Can it be an optional field in user profile?
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Discussion of new tag dual-drive-dual-boot
An increasing number of questions are appearing where the problem is a dual drive installation of Windows on one drive and Ubuntu on a different drive.
The solutions to dual-drive, dual-boot ...
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The "dependency" tag mess
I'm really tired of hunting down all the APT "dependency" problems... There are already 7 tags that are used for something that ultimately translates to apt/dpkg in the "dependency problem" context:
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Could unanswered questions regarding EOL releases be removed via script?
In my quest to clean up the 4000+ unanswered questions with the blacklisted installation tag, I'm constantly running across unanswered questions regarding EOL releases like these:
https://askubuntu....
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Why were my edit suggestions of fixing URL rejected?
I recently suggested a very small edit to a post fixing outdated URLs which were rejected 2 times with the same reason.
The rejection notice states:
Rejected 3 hours ago:
Kevin Bowen reviewed ...
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What is this ridiculous "reputation" system? [duplicate]
I cannot upvote or comment, makes this entire site worthless...
What can I do to fix this?
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Collective "On Topic-ity"
It seems that recently on AskUbuntu, questions have been slipping through the Close-Wall (The wall that keeps a question from being seen by more than a few people). Until now this wall had redirected ...
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Why there are so few answers on askubuntu site? [duplicate]
Why are so few answers on askubuntu?
I don't get it, it's quite big when compared with another SE sites, but still very few answers.
Very many unanswered questions in my opinion, when compared with ...
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"Weighted" reputation gains
I have noticed that you can gain a lot of reputation if you are the first person to answer a quite simple question which concerns a large audience of mostly beginners. However on the other side a ...
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What is the point of voting in meta
The voting in Askubuntu works as following:
you ask a good question, it gets upvoted and you get reputation
you give a good answer and it gets upvoted, you receive reputation
you ask a bad ...
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Why are all the questions/answers on this site so old and out of date?
I have Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS and often have issues with it, but can never find a relevant answer here. 10 year old answers just don't work for newer versions of Ubuntu.
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Why was this very relevant link moderated?
GNOME Screenshot area selection causing freezes
I have this problem and needed the answer contained in the post and responses. I don't really care where it was posted, it was a good post, and if it ...
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Does user with more reputation get any profit?
What does reputation do except providing a different level of privilege?
What is it about? I find people competing for reputation in this askubuntu page.
Isn't this page about solving each others ...
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Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post
Responding to that invitation, I revised this question:
Hi I'm new to ubuntu world. I have few questions about the software
installation in ubuntu:
What's the difference between installing a ...
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Why is there no central resource for fixing installations [closed]
I have been trying to fix my Kubuntu 14.04 installation for the past two days now. I have found that there is generally very little self-contained help/guides/tutorials available. While there is an ...
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I know how everyone can be happy!
Unicorns for everybody!
.... not really.
I'm talking about our long trail of "list of X" that predate the site since immemorial times. As you can see in previous discussions people doesn't ...
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Force answers as accepted
Some users do not mark an answer as "solved my question", even though they leave a comment stating it solved the issue. For example this one.
What can be made about it? Can a flag be issued in order ...
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Reviewing tool should be less flexible by enforcing the Skip option rigourously
When you are reviewing posts, you are faced with three options: Skip, I'm done (after some change), Nothing to review.
Ideally, when you make a change like edit, flag, comment, or vote, the "I'm done"...
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Ask* sites have a serious misconception in their basis. What happens with expert newcomers?
this is no thought exercise, this has happened to be more than once.
Q: What happens to expert users in a field , that just join an Ask* site?
A: They have very little chance of progressing in the ...
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Can a mod email a user to get to the bottom of something?
In a nutshell this Q&A https://askubuntu.com/a/1048488/307523 the commenter says:
@WinEunuuchs2Unix - you are not honest, when you disabled a bounty for
right answer of me over two weeks ago... ...
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Tag change: [cut-command] -> [cut]
The tag cut-command should be called cut. Many other commands, including cp, mv are not with the suffix -command.
Please could we have cut-command changed to cut.
Firstly, all the questions should ...
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I asked a question but now I can not find it
I asked a question:
Create Bash Alias That Accepts Commands
but now I can not find it.
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Why posting meta requires only 5 reputation?
Why posting meta requires only 5 reputation? Why not something like 25 or more with the requirement of having some particular badges?
A new user automatically gets 1 reputation. So, to get privilege ...
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What are the basic principles for using the vote functions?
Have noticed in chat and meta all users are being encouraged to vote more.
Does this mean peoples attitude to voting might need adjusted?
Am trying to list some related questions and observations ...
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