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The help center states that (emphasis mine): Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors including: Edubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Lubuntu, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubun …

Sadly and—in my humble opinion—wrongly, the AU community has decided that workarounds for bugs are off topic. Personally, I've never understood why that is the case since working around bugs is often …

The scope of Ask Ubuntu is almost a subset of the scope of U&L. The exceptions are things like the Ubuntu phone and Canonical services like Launchpad. …

In my opinion, no it does not belong on Ask Ubuntu. It has nothing to do with Ubuntu itself and less to do with any services provided by Canonical. This is a well-meaning but confused student who thin …

I see no reason why not. Ubuntu is an operating system, it is not a kernel. That's precisely the distinction that people like RMS make when they insist on calling the OS GNU/Linux and not Linux. Linux …

I don't see how this would be on topic. We only support official Ubuntu flavors, and this isn't one. The problem described seems to be an issue with the modified installer so I closed the question and …

Finally, the scope of the two sites is very different. On U&L we accept questions about all Unices, AIX, OSX, BSDs, any and all Linux distributions (including Ubuntu), embedded systems etc. … Therefore, the two sites are needed since they each cater to a different audience and have a separate, though overlapping, scope. …

First of all, as Zanna already pointed out in her answer, WSL is on topic here as decided by this meta discussion: Do we consider "Ubuntu on Windows 10" the same as an official Ubuntu flavour? Do we …

Basically: not our problem. The site deals with Ubuntu. If the person who offered the bounty gets a solution that works for Ubuntu but not for NixOS so they feel they cannot award the bounty, then the …

Questions about using Ubuntu, the operating system, are on topic. Using an OS includes using applications running on that OS. That's pretty much all that using an OS means. So if we were to make quest …

We have a rule that we don't support Ubuntu versions that are no longer supported by Canonical. However, there is no rule about software from other sources. And I really think there shouldn't be such …

I think what you're proposing makes a lot of sense since it is just a tiny shift in emphasis and will make the intended scope of the close reasons clearer. … Seth is not suggesting any change to the site's scope, he is just saying that the scope should be more accurately reflected in the close reasons. …

We can hardly list all operating systems for all hardware that are not Ubuntu! That would mean listing Windows, non-Ubuntu Linux, OSX, UNIX, Haiku, BeOs, all UNIX-like systems, iOS, Windows Mobile (or …

While I understand that the site's scope has always included "services provided by Canonical", this question—which is about the internal workings of the Ubuntu Wiki—seems to go well beyond the normal " …

This is a much more reasonable solution than simply deleting them, true. However, there are still quite a few problems with it: You are still moving this content off-site which is part of why we don' …