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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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Question about Windows gets highly voted and has good Linux answers
While reviewing first posts, I got to review this question about why some files do not have extensions.
From the screenshot provided, it was clear to me that the OP was using Windows 10. Furthermore, …
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View inactive posts to achieve Excavator badge
You can use this SEDE query which was created exactly for this purpose: Posts inactive for over 6 months: Useful for Archaeologist badge progress
Or you can use advanced search options in the site's s …
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Why is downvoting a question or answer without a explanation acceptable?
I agree with @muru that the reason for the downvotes is most likely that your answer doesn't exactly address the OP's question, rather offers an alternative. And this seems quite clear.
One would expe …
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OP rejected my edit and then copy-pasted it
I suggested an edit to this answer a few days ago. The edit was approved by a moderator, but was then rejected by the OP of the answer. Which is totally fine, since my interpretation of what the OP wa …
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My question about 24.10 specific Easter Eggs in 24.04 should be on topic now
Even in its original version the question did not seem open-ended to me. Archisman clearly mentioned what he meant by "Easter eggs" in the first revision (emphasis my own):
[...] some Easter Eggs to …
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How long do we support Ubuntu flavors?
Recently, there have been proposed and applied changes regarding “End of Standard Support” and “End of Life”. It is not clear, however, if this policy also applies to the official flavors.
For example …
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Should this tag be transformed in a [flicker] of light?
We have the flicker tag. Its usage guidance says:
When something flickers it flashes repeatedly. Flickering in the Ask Ubuntu forums is generally referring to screen issues, or to describe an LED, su …
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Should this tag be put into [storage]? Or not?
I don't think that it's a bad tag. Being generic is not necessarily a bad thing and not enough reason to remove it. The fact that there are other tags that may be more specific is also not a good rea …
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Should we put [wallpaper] to the [background] (or vice-versa)?
We have the wallpaper and background tags. The tag excerpt of the first says:
For questions regarding the image displayed on the desktop background.
The tag excerpt of the second says:
Questions ab …
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Can we fix this tag or should we just [uninstall]?
Since uninstalling software can be broadly considered as part of software installation, I propose that we make both software-uninstall and uninstall tags synonyms of the software-installation tag.
Sim …
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
I strongly disagree both with the mod's decision to delete the post and with the way the post was handled.
In my opinion your suggestion of running the xz --version command is not problematic, since t …
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How to get an e-mail notification when I get a new answer or comment at my question?
You don't have to do anything. By default you will get notified once per day about new answers to your questions in the email you have used to set up your Ask Ubuntu account.
You can also change when …
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Add option to close vote because it is an XY problem?
Even if we weren't at our limit as Thomas said, I don't think that XY questions that need to be closed occur frequently enough that they would need a new closure reason.
The best option would be, in m …
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Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by edit...
As one of the reviewers that rejected your edit, I want to clarify the following:
As muru commented, the OP was kindly asked to improve their question so it wouldn't be closed as it eventually did. T …
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Do we support [language-support]?
We have a language-support tag which has the following guidance:
Questions related to the language support provided by Ubuntu.
We also have a language tag which has the following guidance:
Questio …