The help center says:

###Questions that you should avoid:

• Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04), budgie-remix (16.04 and 16.10) and other Linux distributions (try our friends at Unix & Linux Stack Exchange).

• Bug reports (How do I submit a bug?).
• Issues with the next version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu+1) (More information about Alpha and Beta release issues).
• Shopping or Hardware Recommendations
• Support for versions for Ubuntu releases past their Support or "End of Life" (EOL) — unless the question is asking how to upgrade to a supported release.

We have a close reason for each of the above, except for "Shopping or Hardware Recommendations.

If these questions are considered off-topic (in my experience they get closed as off-topic with a custom reason or as duplicates of Where can I find a list of computers guaranteed to work with Ubuntu? or similar) then shouldn't we

• get rid of the hardware-recommendations tag so visitors hopefully don't waste time making nice well-formatted posts like this which will be closed
• consider making a close reason, maybe with a link to the question that these posts are normally closed as dupe of?