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Are questions about other Linux distros acceptable?
Is it acceptable to ask elementary questions about Linux that will be of interest to Ubuntu users (e.g., how do I lock the screen in Xfce?) though one may be using another distro? Such questions will ...
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What happens if I don't get a satisfying answer?
I asked a few questions, and some of them didn't get me an answer that helped (or an answer at all, for that matter. Occasionally people answer a question with more info, but not an answer). *
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Is this a bug? I can start a bounty on someone's answered question.
Network Manager or WICD?
I am given an option to start a bounty. This is not my question, and it has been answered.
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Mentioning of the CoC in the final FAQ
Please add to the FAQ a link to our Code of Conduct and the Leadership Code of conduct:
Under the title "Be nice" it can be added:
Please follow the Ubuntu Code of Conduct and Ubuntu Leadership Code ...
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Where is my "comment" activity?
When I first log into the site, I get a little notification at the top about comments I've received on questions I've answered. However, when I go into my "Activity" page on my profile, there's no ...
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Why is the Unix community allowed to vote for or against a potential merge of Ubuntu and Unix, but not the Ubuntu community?
In the unix.stackexchange.com site a banner pops up to vote for or against the merge of unix.stackexchange.com and ubuntu.stackexchange.com. However, here on the ubuntu site this banner does not pop ...
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Encouraging existing Ubuntu teams to use SE
This isn't really a question but I guess I should bring it up now rather than later. In an effort to help spread the word I have asked some existing Ubuntu teams to start participating.
I started ...
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Retag request: 10.4 instead of 10.04
Would someone please retag this question with 10.04 instead of 10.4.
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How should unattributed copying (plagiarism) be dealt with?
An answer on the main site copies content from one of the Ubuntu wikis without attribution (as required by the license).
How should we handle unattributed copying?
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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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Merging codenames with versions
Should we merge all codename tags with the version tags? Already there are tags like lucid and 10.04 which are identical.
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Ubuntu One Integration? Or something... [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Launchpad Single Sign On
https://one.ubuntu.com/
I like that the "Ubuntu One" cloud account goes hand in hand with the operating system, and now there's a music store... It ...
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How should we promote this site?
We need to start discussing how we plan on promoting this site now that the beta is off the ground.
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Rhythmbox tags: retag or synonym?
On the parent site there are currently 3 questions tagged with rythmbox and 3 questions tagged with rhythmbox. In general, I would say that the former questions should be retagged in favour of the ...
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Nominations for future site logo [closed]
According to this question we should start to discuss our future site logo as one of the top-7 items
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Finding community wikis
Why isn't there a listing of community wikis?
It seems to me that being able to easily find community wikis would be a great resource based on the description of community wikis.
I would assume ...
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Avoiding forum style usage and promoting SE style Q and A
There is a question on the parent site that has become like a forum (follow-up questions and responses posted as answers). The question is complicated because the person asking included several issues ...
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Can we adjust the points and privileges system a bit?
I feel like I have been trying to be a good stackexchange citizen, but have been stymied by the points system.
The one example I have right now is that it requires 150 reputation points to create new ...
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Who is the public for which this service is intended, exactly?
Some of the questions appearing seem pretty advanced, wile others (like the ones I'm asking) are elementary. Who is the user we imagine using this service? The answer to this question should ...
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Should there be a standard for application install instructions?
I've been looking at some answers and comments and I see several different ways of writing an instruction to install a particular application.
There is of course command line apt which is somewhat ...
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Should we seed the site with questions and answers?
Some communities has done this on Stack Overflow to seed the site with content for particular topics.
For instance, should we take some recent threads from Ubuntu Forums that have a large number of ...
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Help me formulate this question:
I'd like to write a question that will provide some info that I would have needed a year ago as I was learning Ubuntu. But I'm having a hard time formulating it so that it is clear and simple. I'll ...
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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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