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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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How to suggest a FAQ?
As a part of the cleanup week I see a FAQ - "How to completely remove a program and it's configuration files?"
As a part of clean up, this question
How to fully remove the eclipse package?
could po …
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Using abbreviations and a `threatsome` advice from a community member
"Free" as in freedom comes in shades of gray. If you want a completely free, opensource OS, use linux-libre There are versions based on both Arch and Ubuntu. There is a bit of a lag in their releases …
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How much rep does a veteran have?
My guess is that "veteran" has to be taken in context of the conversation. For example, in this conversation "verteran" presumedy would refer to users with both 3K + reputation and experience in revi …
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What is the next step when an 'ask ubuntu' question isn't answered?
You need to be more descriptive of the problem and post more information.
Simply stating something is broken does not do much to solve the problem.
See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bu …
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Suggestion - Add a request for additional hardware information to close votes
Currently when using close votes there are a number of suggestions (as you know).
I would like to suggest a close vote to request hardware information.
For example, Microphone Volume changing random …
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Crouton install vs Crouton-based Ubuntu problem
In general we try to avoid absolutes and provide support as much as possible.
Example with Centos: Sometimes there are very generic questions here, such as how to use fdisk - Create new partition wi …
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Same questions over and over again
I would just add that sometimes the problem is burn out. If all the questions look like duplicates, or if you are getting frustrated, well both are good indications you need a break.
BUT ...
I would …
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Updating a question / answer
Posting here to try to consolidate discussion and obtain a consensus on:
Clarifying the original question (sudo w/o password vs ssh-key without password). …
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Would it be helpful it I posted a Q/A to server management
I have noticed a general tendency here for new server admins to want to install a desktop on his or her server and then forward part or more often the entire desktop over ssh or VNC server.
I am of t …
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Wrong duplicate
There are many questions regarding a buggy kernel being mis marked
This is another duplicate of Kernel panic after update to 4.4.0-108-generic being mis marked as My computer boots to a black screen, …
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The ongoing here confuses me finaly
For the most part your question and many of the answers are frankly tl:dr
If my answer is tl;dr - check your attitude both with new users and high reputation users here at the door and learn from you …
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Formerly known as bodhi.zazen
Just a heads up here on meta ...
Time for a name change , just letting you all know, and yes it has been a long strange trip ....
Web site is still bodhizazen.com / blog.bodhizazen.com
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I do not understand some of the badges
Specifically , the "good answer" and "great answer" two, it seems I have a few answers which would qualify.
Keep the Ubuntu package version I'm using now
That answer has 5 upvotes.
It is not really …
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Are bugs necessarily off-topic?
Bug reports are critical.
What the more experienced members of the community need to do (perhaps in chat, irc, or elsewhere) is to guide users to be able to file a bug report.
With Ubuntu much of th …
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How should we handle support requests in the Ask Ubuntu General Room?
I would not duplicate community effort. The advantage of askubuntu (or any "forums" meaning public Q&A on a web server) is that others can benefit from both the questions and answers.
So if someone n …