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questions about the scope of this site.
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Are question about removing another OS but Ubuntu on topic?
Title says it all. This question inspired this meta-Q. So, are questions about removing another OS but Ubuntu on-topic?
Relevant comments:
mint is offtopic on askubuntu. But you can format the partit …
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Can someone make clear rules about the "software-recommendation" tag? [duplicate]
Ok, apparently we don't have a clear set of rules about the software-recommendation:
As long as any answer is correct, the question is not a place for Ask Ubuntu. – Braiam 4 hours ago
@braiam any que …
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Wubi discussion (AGAIN) - Supported Here on Ask Ubuntu? (13.04 and later)
So, Wubi + Windows 8 + UEFI = Offtopic. Noted.
Now, I don't see what of the proforma reasons apply. Do we need something like:
Wubi is not supported in Windows 8 installations using UEFI nor vers …
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Are the creation and solution of CTF exercise welcomed here?
I've seen this question on the Close Votes queue:
Why does the run level change automatically?
At first, when I saw the title it picked my curiosity, but then reading OP's comment:
Thanks for th …
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Are suspend/power management problems on or off-topic?
This has been said several times already, but apparently we need to make a Meta Q explaining all the reasons why a question will be considered a Bug and hence closed as off-topic. So this is one of th …
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Quantal -> Raring -> Saucy upgrade path, how?
Final response:
This question came up a while ago on Ask Ubuntu, and Jorge asked me to help
respond to it:
How will people upgrade from 12.10 to later releases after 13.04 is EOL?
I've …
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Do we need big lists?
So, the Don't ask section specifically says:
Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.
furthermore:
ev …
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Is asking for raw numbers/statistics on Ask Ubuntu welcomed?
Ok, lets face it. Those kind of data are not reliable when we talk about FOSS software, and asking what is the most popular/downloaded/used/insert-counter-here (IMO the first and third are very opinio …
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Just lets drop the software recommendation mess
But let me not rant about that and lets see what our soft rec guide says for questions:
Scope, Scope, Scope. … consider making your question a little broader in scope. "Graphic Manipulation Software for Ubuntu?" …
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Can we please decide if Chrubuntu installation and usage is on topic? [duplicate]
We've got couple of questions about ChrUbuntu, installing Ubuntu on a Chrome Book, problems that happens only when you use these modified scripts. So, they are welcomed with all that it carries or the …
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Heartbleed on 13.04 is bad for the Internet, we should keep one open
Why? I mean, we are advocates that people worrying about security issues, should use supported version of Ubuntu, since they aren't being totally patched. There are several CVEs that were fixed in sup …
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Do you think these Questions need to be close/deleted because they are too broad?
To counter Oli argument, and propose a perfect solution, I say to migrate all the information to the Tag wiki's and delete the questions on the site.
This seems to be the solution that other sites th …
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Who are the experts for [localhost]?
Lets get rid of the localhost tag I'm really surprised it met with strong opposition at the time, and I still not convinced, so let me ask if there are really experts in "localhost" question and a que …
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Are questions about the software centre app submit process acceptable?
Questions about "why wasn't my app accepted/rejected" or "what's the status of my app" should be addressed by the representatives of Canonical. We've consistently closing them as we really can't help …
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How do we feel about requests for learning materials?
The problem with those questions is that they tend not only to generate polls about the "most popular resource" but also "link-only answers" that we hate too much. For example:
What GIMP tutorials a …
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