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Are questions in other language other than English accepted in AU? (accepting other language...
Nope.
This is an English-only site, because it's far more likely that people will get support from other English-speakers. Poor English is better than no English, and we can usually salvage a good pos …
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Old question with old answer. How can I request an update on the topic?
I think you should post a new question, as this is version specific. It's a different version of the software, therefore the question is not fundamentally the same. Make sure to specify that it is a d …
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Should Ubuntu related code samples and sniplets be prefixed with sudo iff necessary?
If sudo is necessary.
I do use sudo for a single command. However, if you need to run a series of commands as root, I would just specify that "the below commands need to be run as root."
sudo is dan …
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Why 10 rep for protection?
On AU (and all other SE sites, I think), you need 10+ reputation to post on a protected question.
Why 10? It's very easy to achieve and you only need one answer upvote. We've seen bad answers get upv …
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Is Ask Ubuntu boring?
Whenever I visit other SE sites, they always have very cool features and fun things with our site seems to lack. Can we try to make this site more fun?
What Other Sites Have:
Fancy Chat names (like …
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Is there a "close preference order"? [duplicate]
Recently I ran into a question or two that can be closed for either off-topic or being a duplicate.
Is there an order that questions should be closed?
(i.e. close a question as a dupe before closing …
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Why aren't most questions answered with references to documentation or mention to RTFM?
We do encourage users to read the manual and get information for the future.
We shouldn't force users to actually just read the documentation, as this isn't a forum. People ask questions, people get …
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Shold post in Meta be required before closing a question?
No. Please, god, no.
Closing is for questions with severe problems content-wise. If five people (or a single mod) decide that the question is not editable into something good, we have the option to c …
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Would you reject an edit to a question asked 2 1/2 years ago?
Reject the edit because the information added in the edit is irrelevant and useless to the question, not because of its age.
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A new appearance
Stack Exchange is not going to make a dark theme for every site, nor should they. The overhead of managing/maintaining all of those themes across one hundred something sites is not easy.
If you want …
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POWER8 architecture tag(s)?
If you're referring to the POWER8 (or IBM's PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian) system, the appropriate tag to use is very simply just ppc64le. As PPC64LE is only (to the best of my knowledge) a server plat …
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Is Ask Ubuntu an archive?
Yes, Ask Ubuntu is meant to be an archive of information for future users (with some rules).
From the tour itself:
Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. It's b …
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How specific are duplicates?
It really depends on the users voting on the definition of "duplicate," which is why this is a democratic process.
By definition, however, it means that the general question you've asked have already …
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How to list all my contributions
This is impossible through vanilla StackExchange, but I've gone ahead and created a quick-n-dirty SE Data Explorer query that will show you most of your actions on-site. It will display one entry for …
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Should questions like this be migrated to Super User?
WSL {Windows Subsystem For Linux} is supported on Ask Ubuntu, and therefore the question is on-topic.
While we're not obligated to support the install of Windows, we sort of do have a responsibility …