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Yes, you can ask a question here on Ask Ubuntu that you've already asked on some other site, assuming it's on topic here. In your case, there's no problem, but if you had already asked on another Stac …

Some of y'all may remember that way back in the mists of time, we celebrated Ask Ubuntu's 10th birthday with some chat-based workshops. That was pretty cool. The other day Artur Meinild mentioned that …

Sorry about that. Suggested edits to be reviewed used to show up much more prominently in the top bar. Grumble grumble, back in my day, etc etc. We keep having this problem. I'm not sure how to solve …

When deciding whether to flag or vote to close a question as duplicate, I ask this question: Could a useful answer to this question exist that would not make sense if posted to the proposed target? If …

Unlike, say, elections for political representatives, moderator elections are held on Stack Exchange sites not at regular intervals but simply when current moderators or staff decide that one or more …

It's been asked about before and asked about again but it seems like the large uninstall tag is still a bit of a miscellany, with the majority of questions in it being about uninstalling software, whi …

The goal of Ask Ubuntu is to create a high quality reference library of questions and answers. It makes sense that posts can be revised and improved. Comments are supposed to facilitate the improvemen …

So, not very long ago a change was made to the format of the banner that appears at the top of closed questions. It no longer shows who closed the post (I disapprove of this change, but this post here …

It seems, as discovered by Mark Kirby, that Mateo created the room (on June 26th 2012), with the purpose of coordinating voting. Why would one want to coordinate voting? Well, questions with no answer …

Let us make the main tag desktop-background so as to be as unambiguous as possible, and let background and wallpaper be synonyms of that.

This option used to be named "should be closed"*. It was changed to "needs improvement" in April 2020, going by the date of the linked post. It leads to the various close options. Users who don't have …

We're living in interesting times. In my understanding, the reason we don't want AI-generated content is that it's garbage - the bot doesn't know the answer to the question, it only knows how to produ …

It's fine to add a new answer. It's unusual, but it can be the right thing to do in a situation where: You have a new idea that's distinct from the idea you expressed in your existing answer (so it d …

"Development on Ubuntu" in the on-topic guidance refers to developing Ubuntu itself i.e. writing software for Ubuntu. This is always on topic regardless of the tools being used. I don't think that sho …

Software recommendation questions are fine here; we just ask that they be sufficiently specific and detailed. For example, there could be a brief description of the use case or of the features require …