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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Is it smart to use threats or insulting language when asking for help?
I've seen many questions where the person asking for help, uses insults as part of their question. As examples, look at these:
How can I get your (bad word here) software to do what I (bad word her …
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Is it smart to use threats or insulting language when asking for help?
Most helpers on this site are volunteers. They are not paid to do customer service. They do so because they're proud of the software and community they're contributing to. This means that if you insul …
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Questions about the future is off-topic?
As Ubuntu gets more attention in the general media (which is a very good thing), people get more questions they'd like to get answers to. For instance, HUD is going to attract a lot of curiosity.
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what the difference between system-tray and panel?
The panel is the entire grey bar that spans the top of your screen. The "system-tray" is only the indicator area, where you have icons and stuff. In Unity, it isn't so easy to spot the difference, but …
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When does askubuntu.com celebrate new years eve? [duplicate]
By my calendar, it's not January 2. 2012. When I look at the stats for this week, month, quarter and year, it seems we're still in December. When does this change? :)
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Did you have both Unity and classic Gnome in 11.04?
Whether you call it Gnome Fallback, Gnome Classic or Ubuntu Classic, please also use its proper name: Gnome Panel. It deserves more attention than it currently receives.
Your question seems to be wh …
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Old questions that are now irrelevant or even completely wrong?
I just came across this old question about Spotify: Cannot get Spotify to run.
Back in 2011, we needed Premium accounts to use the Linux-version. That's no longer the case. So, what do we do with th …
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