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I think that Debian user-style questions be flagged so it can be migrated to unix.se. However, in the case of questions that focus on how to work with Debian, like these should be most welcome: How …

I found this blog entry from the SE team that seems to answer the question quite well.

On thing I think could help would be an addition to the text on the "Ask a Question" page. Currently it reads Is your question about Ubuntu? We prefer questions that can be answered, not just di …

The "Is this a good laptop for Ubuntu" questions are definitely offtopic I think unless someone is asking for a specific issue along the lines of "I am interested in a Dell Latitude X123 but it has th …

I think they should be considered ontopic. For more advanced users who might need to follow the progress of a bug or report a bug it can be useful. And for developers (especially SE people who are u …

I don't think it will be useful, there's no way to tell if an unofficial derivative has the same setup/versions/packages as an official Ubuntu release, it will just lead to confusion. Those questions …

One problem I can see with "all versions in one question" is that after a while it would be tough to "unseat" a proven answer for an old version. For example here's a popular question: How can I con …

I don't see why we wouldn't though your first two questions would probably be out of scope for the site anyway as we're not a "list of things" kind of place. …

The FAQ says it's ontopic: Running third-party applications on Ubuntu. So I would say yes.

As is, there is a very high percentage of questions regarding Wine. wine questions are just shy of 1% of all questions, so I wouldn't call that high. The ones that are basically bug reports are …

I asked the question today because I googled for "btrfs windows" because I ran into this problem. The very first hit on google was the existing question: How to read ext4 partitions in Windows? At …

Not all power management questions are bugs, sometimes it's something like blacklisting a certain module or another configuration issue to get power management to work; it's the same as wireless quest …

Since this is a pretty serious issue I think we should keep one canonical question for heartbleed on 13.04, maybe this one? https://askubuntu.com/questions/445710/how-to-patch-ubuntu-13-04-raring-fo …

I just voted to close this Debian question. There are a bunch of Debian questions that are open though; when is it appropriate to close a Debian question?

Here is a data query of questions with comments about filing bugs but the question is still open: http://data.stackexchange.com/ubuntu/query/70444/possibly-open-bug-reports We should be going thro …