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Do we consider "Ubuntu on Windows 10" the same as an official Ubuntu flavour? Do we support ...
As many will have heard of, Microsoft will distribute a stock Ubuntu installation to be run on Windows 10. Source.
Someone has made the point that being this the result of a partnership with Canonica …
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Are "not only Ubuntu-specific" questions on-topic?
However this topic came up recently again in a discussion in the comments of a question about sudo, where an user claimed the question be off-topic because of its "not only Ubuntu-specific"ness being sudo …
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More interesting name for our main chat room?
I'd like something along the lines of Oxwivi's answer, however just to throw in another one (perhaps a bit banal, fantasy is not my top strenght):
The Orange Room
It's Ubuntu's color and the room's co …
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How to deal with users that won't mark duplicate but instead copy-paste their answers agan a...
Personally I don't upvote answers to questions which are clearly duplicates ("clearly" = I can find an almost exact duplicate in the first three pages using the search function or in the first page us …
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Exchange votes or favours
My two cents;
Don't browse users, browse questions.
If you're genuinely enthusiast about a user's post, upvote it. Comments shouldn't be used for that, but if from time you time you like a post so m …
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Why do I not lose reputation when downvoting a question?
Because, reiterating Oli's words, there's no need to prevent users from "gaming the system by downvoting other question", as there's no point in downvoting other questions to your advantage, unless yo …
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Do we, or do we not support wubi.exe?
I think I made a mistake.
I've always seen questions about Wubi being closed as off-topic because of it being discontinued, and since that itself made sense I endorsed the same practice.
However rea …
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Should I keep an eye on spam-like answers about free software? Or why do people spam-promote...
I mistakenly flagged this answer as spam. The flag was rejected. At first I tought the reason was that in first place the answer, on-topic or not, didn't refer to any paid software, but just to a bash …
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Do we want heavily-downvoted questions to appear on the Meta AU homepage?
Furthermore Meta is a place of discussion, and silencing unpopular opinions (to me) kinda feels like censoship. …
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I made an edit to a question adding additional details I learned of after implementing my ac...
This site is about asking questions and receiving answers;
Each of the two have their own space to live in; there should be no question containing an answer nor an answer containing a question.
That's …
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What should we do when encountering wiki excerpt suggestions on useless tags?
I'd say to reject the suggestion and to get rid of the tag.
Creating / editing a tag wiki excerpt for a tag that has no reason to exist puts the cart before the horse, and shouldn't be encouraged: mu …
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Why ask-ubuntu can seem frustrating to the average user
So far you've asked a question 9 times and answered a question 7 times.
Only 2 out of the 9 questions you have asked (excluding this one) has been downvoted (this one and this one); personally I woul …
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Prevent misuse of the ".desktop" tag
I'll move my proposal from the comments to an answer so that people can vote on it.
I propose to rename it to desktop-files, because:
Having a leading dot makes sense only when referencing desktop …
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Heavy handed application of "off-topic" for new user?
I think anyone who had tried at least once to run a webserver + PHP instance would agree that what's shown in OP's picture could very likely have been a sign of Apache / PHP misconfiguration (or for t …