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questions about the scope of this site.
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Why was my Steam WINE question closed as off-topic?
I voted to close as unclear what you're asking, whose description reads:
Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to
highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently writ …
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Are questions off-topic that are thought not to be but turn out to be?
Yes, of course.
For example, if, during the course of getting details from OP, it turned out that it was because OP was using CentOS instead of Ubuntu, it would still be off-topic.
The classic examp …
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Do we support snapd on other distros?
I think the only precedent we have here is Ubuntu One, and of the not-yet-deleted questions about it on Windows, not one is closed because it was about Windows. So, the precedent seems to be that we s …
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Do we consider "Ubuntu on Windows 10" the same as an official Ubuntu flavour? Do we support ...
Canonical does, so I'd suppose it's fair game.
This isn't full Ubuntu, though. It's just the command line, and that I think should retain the same behaviour except where it uses Linux-specific APIs ( …
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Is Ubuntu Core (20) on-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
The blog post announcing it says:
Canonical secures business critical devices for 10 years.
So ask Canonical for your ten years of support.
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How strict should off-topic questions be flagged as such?
General usage of command line tools available on Ubuntu is usually on-topic here, as is shell scripting. On the other hand, I see no particular reason why that question should belong on SO; there is n …
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"Can I run Ubuntu on my hardware?" questions: a discussion
IMO these should be closed for multiple reasons:
consumer hardware changes too quickly and has too many minor variations for the answers to have any lasting value. Same problem with shopping recomme …
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Question about deprecated releases in a container
We can help with getting the containers to start, and problems with interfacing the containers with host (like networking), but problems that are purely inside the containers would be out of scope if the … OS inside the container is out-of-scope. …
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Let's refine and clarify our off-topic close reasons
I disagree. My first response to an EOL question will always be to vote-close as off-topic it for being EOL, or as a dupe to the old-releases question, unless someone conclusively proves that:
The qu …
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