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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 deal with "How to fix everything?" questions?

Today I have spotted this question. It lists a bunch of completely unrelated problems with a huge variety of programs, and asks how to revert everything to default. Is that a case of 'too-localized'? …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
10 votes
2 answers
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Ubuntu website recommends to report bugs on askubuntu.com?

I've just found that on the following page users are recommended to report bugs by filling in bug reports, asking on IRC/mailing list, or asking on askubuntu.com. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/repo …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
2 votes

Do we need a tool to help users providing information on their system?

There is already a tool in Ubuntu that collects all the data that is useful for developers for having a glimpse of user's system state. Actually, that's what Apport does. Of course we don't need to co …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
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Do we need a "flashing"/"installing-touch" tag?

As the source for Ubuntu Touch has been released, a lot of people are trying to flash their Nexus 7 with it. A lot of problems may happen here, and many more generic questions related to installing th …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
204 views

Why was this question closed? / Do we have a common "How to run .exe" question?

I find it surprising that this question was closed as off-topic. I understand that the body of this question implies that the OP is neither seriously interested in this problem, nor that it is clear …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
15 votes
2 answers
322 views

Doesn't this ton of specific support questions lower AU overall quality?

I do not want to raise controversies, I do not intend to cause any heated discussion and I do not wish to complain about how AU works. I am just going to share my observations that worry me. … Select some of these questions at random and see for yourself how much of them need/needed some discussion - including "please tell us what your graphics card is" as well as "does XYZ work for you?". …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
6 votes

What is the difference between Ask Ubuntu and Ubuntu Questions on Launchpad?

Asking questions on Launchpad: You contact developers directly. That means you will probably get the most accurate and technically correct answer. Your question may get redirected to developers of s …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
1 vote

Why My question is not constructive?

I think that the reason is different. The point with this question is that it cannot be answered correctly. What I mean is that there is not really a way to determine whether an answer is corect or no …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
13 votes
2 answers
224 views

Encouraging (new) users to accept answers

I guess this might have been already covered somewhere on the Meta, but I have no idea on how to search for it - if so, please point me to that question. My problem is that I've noticed that since …
Rafał Cieślak's user avatar
-2 votes
3 answers
244 views

What about using a "poor-english" tag?

I'm not sure if the Meta is the right place for sharing ideas, but I couldn't find any better one (let me know if I should have proposed it somewhere else). What I would like to suggest is to mark …
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