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After a long and grueling battle, I am happy to report that this question has finally been re-opened. Thank you to Mark Kirby, karel, Eliah Kagan, and Kulfy for additionally casting reopen votes on t …

Alright, so, there are quite a few tags floating around for (roughly) the same thing: remote-login - This tag, seeming to currently be for the remote-login service, but being used for anything remot …

GKSU is dead. Long live pkexec and sudo. There isn't anything wrong with GKSU, per se, but it is now antiquated and the official stance seems to be that using it is a Bad Idea™. Especially with plans …

glitch seems to be completely undescriptive as a tag. We're limited to five tags per post. We should make them useful and descriptive so that people with expertise can find and answer those tagged qu …

Doing something like this leads down a path I will (lovingly) refer to as formatting hell. In my personal opinion, not everything needs to be a list, and we shouldn't be encouraging sublists any more …

[not] having enough reputation to post to old posts Questions will (on occasion) become something known as protected. This is usually a result of a question: being very popular receiving lots o …

As of now, there are no questions tagged key on the main site. Thanks to everyone who helped! Now, to deal with keys...

Recently, I discovered the existence of key. This tag is currently being used for both cryptographic keys (SSH/GPG/RSA/etc.) as well as keys on one's keyboard. A tag that functions like this has, in …

Questions that mention Mint or any other unofficial derivative should not be immediately closed, but they most likely do require additional scrutiny. If a problem exists with only Mint (or the OP is …

Recently, this post came up on Meta, and they brought up a good point (paraphrased): I should have read the tour, but i couldn't even find it or even know that one existed. When you ask for help, …

So, I recently posted an answer on the main site containing some code. Just a normal day on Ask Ubuntu. Within a matter of minutes, I received an e-mail from Pastebin alerting that someone made a pos …

You should remove them if, and only if they can not be improved. Deleting answers potentially deprives people of a solution. We (obviously) don't want to do that. If a post can, at all, be salvaged a …

Recently, I've noticed a lot of old abandoned questions (for example, this one with two CVs) being closed as no-repro. This seems rather unusual, given the fact that the primary issue is that these q …

I would say no here. The prompt is a specific (and independent) aspect of a terminal system. While prompt-related questions can live under command-line, so could bash. They seem distinct enough to b …

The new design is neat I like the new design. It's cleaner, flatter, and looks more elegant. However, it does need some changes before it's ready here. Move the site switcher back The site switcher …