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questions about the scope of this site.
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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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Should questions that are asking for an install guide be flagged?
That one question fits the definition of too broad, you will need to write the equivalent of a book to start answering the question. Also, I would downvote it, it doesn't show any research effort, and …
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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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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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How to resolve conflicting information about "Chrubuntu" policy/status?
I will give a reason why I voted to close first:
In that particular question, to me, doesn't seems to be a problem within the bounds that Ubuntu will have the same behavior and more like the changes …
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Can we please ban unrelated programming questions?
Before this post gets downvoted to hell:
I think that programing questions about using the system calls/interface are on topic. But isn't on topic how to write a "hello world" in C.
This is alread …
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systemd on or off topic
I have no idea why they say that systemd is "Experimental code" when is considered stable enough to land in the next iteraction of Debian Jessie as their main init system.
What it is experimental is …
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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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Why did you close this question instead of migrating it?
Rules of migration:
Don't migrate crap.
Only migrate if the target site wants the question.
See No. 1.
If OP ask to be migrated, let it.
See No. 3.
That question violates 1, 3 and 5. ;)
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A note on flagging end of life questions
So, I was mailed about this. I'm not happy. In fact, I knew it wasn't anything good.
I was the one that voted to close that question as not reproducible, and I would do it again. The question has bee …
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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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Questions on how to use a program that technically are available on ubuntu?
It's technically on topic, but a bad researched question... which is not surprising. The torrent protocol can leave you a little baffled because it does stuff you don't expect to do. Such questions sh …
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Why is this question on using Ubuntu with Nvidia drivers off-topic?
ok, lets look at this:
[ 614.349]
Backtrace:
[ 614.349] 0: X (xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0xe85837]
[ 614.349] 1: X (0xcfd000+0x18c5ba) [0xe895ba]
[ 614.349] 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) …
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Is it fine to ask questions about boot errors from log files?
I think bodhi hit the nail in his comment:
IMHO filing a bug report is preferable as it results in actual fixes which helps everyone, so I tend to close them.
If there´s a solution that gets rid …
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Questions candidates that should be closed for historical reasons?
About a month ago was modified since the introduction of Ubuntu GNOME Remix. There are 21 answers and I doubt it will stop as people find what they feel accustomed with and the most popular desktops a …
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