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So I'm not sure it's the best question to help us figure out a policy about scope (as it may not work out, for reasons other than scope). …

There's one way to find out... I recommend posting the question, with a comment pointing here. (Or maybe you have already posted it, but I haven't found it the list of questions in your profile.) Then …

Don’t hit them over the head with your scope, help them tailor their question to fit into it – and if that means your site’s scope overlaps a bit with another site’s, so be it. …

I think this one of those situations where we have to have some idea of what a good answer might look like, to decide if it's on topic. It's to that end that I shall discuss (but not answer) the quest …

I propose a simple rule for us to apply, to figure out if someone's operating system is really Ubuntu, and thus within the scope of Ask Ubuntu. …

(Server Fault is another but its scope is narrower, see their FAQ.) …

Speaking generally, I think: Questions about features and capabilities are usually on-topic. True feature requests, or questions where the intent is not clear enough for a good answer to be posted, a …

As others have said, SteamOS is not an official Ubuntu derivative. Questions don't become on-topic here by being about SteamOS. With that said, the usual guideline applies, that if the question is in …

(I think it's okay with respect to quality, scope, and so forth as well, but that's a separate matter which you haven't asked about.) …

Many people assume that because Linux Mint derives from Ubuntu and is similar to it in many ways that a question about Linux Mint is within the scope of our site just because it's asking about Mint. …

English ("so I can report an Ubuntu bug") are off-topic. 1 I've crossed that out because, as written, (a) it goes against this official network-wide policy that says not to close questions based on the scope …

The Nature of Scope Decisions There's no way to enumerate an exhaustive list of formal rules about what's on topic and what's not. This question is extremely general. … Don’t hit them over the head with your scope, help them tailor their question to fit into it – and if that means your site’s scope overlaps a bit with another site’s, so be it. …

Although the current help says we support Ubuntu Core, it doesn't say if we support installing and using snapd on other operating systems. My default assumption is that we do not--after all, using sna …

But if comments are being posted (1) explaining clearly why it's off-topic, (2) referring to a site where it's on-topic, (3) linking to the FAQ (since it contains information about the scope of this site …

My understanding is that we consider questions about running Ubuntu One in Windows to be on-topic for this site (thanks to Jorge Castro for clarifying this in chat). But we close at least some questi …