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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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Let's burninate [mint]
If Linux Mint is off topic, why the heck do we have the tag mint?
How does it help to tag Ubuntu questions with it?
This user wrongly assumed Mint was on topic due to the existence of said tag: https: …
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Changing canonical questions
I think we can all agree that this has become a canonical question: How to install Android Studio on Ubuntu?
I would like to create my own, better version.
If I were to do so, would the community be …
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Can we burninate [prompt]?
I don't see much point of the prompt tag, and it only has ~100 questions tagged with it.
Shall we burninate it?
P.S. Let's also nuke lag
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Vote: Do you like the new top bar design?
After discussing my previous question with some other users in chat, it was brought to my attention that SE is about to rollout a new top bar design to all the sites. However, I personally hate the ne …
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Vote: Do you like the new top bar design?
No, keep the current design
Placing the main menu on the right is awkward
The icons are cryptic. In particular, it seems nobody can find the review icon; on Stack Overflow, where the new top bar has …
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Is it appropriate to ask about Zorin OS here, as it's built on Ubuntu?
No. We don't support Linux Mint or any other distros which are based on Ubuntu here either.
You could ask on our sister site, http://unix.stackexchange.com though.
We only support official Ubuntu …
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Should we not downvote if a question already has a bad score?
Alright, so I know this is going to be controversial, but here goes:
I was perusing the home page and saw this question:
Now, obviously that is a bad question and certainly does deserve a nega …
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I can see this deleted question even though I don't have 10k? [duplicate]
Title pretty much sums it up. I am somehow able to view this question even though I don't have 10k reputation.
Is this a bug?
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What is best practice for writing commands? With $ or without $?
I prefer this type of style:
sudo do-whatever
Really, the only purpose of putting $ in there is to signify that you're running the command as you instead of root. (#)
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Why do edits need to be approved by two users?
When reviewing suggested edits, if one clicks Approve, another user still has to approve it before it goes live.
However, if one clicks Improve Edit, the edit is instantly applied without needing a 2 …
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"Not a real question" close reason?
Was the "Not a real question" close reason:
Replaced with "Unclear what you're asking"?
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Is it okay to ask the OP inside your answer to accept and upvote it?
Title says it all. See this answer. I have bolded the questionable part of the quote.
Burn Ubuntu to a DVD and you won't have any trouble booting it... glad
that worked for you. Please rate and …
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"Prompting for accepts"? [duplicate]
My question: was the comment I left not okay?
Is saying, if my answer works, please consider accepting it wrong?
As requested, link: Unable to mount Windows 10 partition; it "is in an unsafe sta …
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Mint "tag warning" proposal
I propose that we create a "tag warning" for mint, because it seems like we are getting a lot of OT questions about Mint.
Now you say, this is a dupe!
Well yes, sorta, but nothing came out of it. So …
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What is it about some answers that attract upvotes?
Here are the two top answers that I've written. They both have 8 upvotes. You'll notice they are relatively simple answers.
https://askubuntu.com/a/812186/518562
https://askubuntu.com/a/793353/51856 …
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