Unanswered Questions
73 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 23.04 (a.k.a. Lunar Lobster) is now released. As of today (April 20th, 2023), posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still must meet the normal requirements for ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 has been released, and posts about it are no longer (generally) off-topic
As of Thu Oct 20 19:13:20 UTC, 2022, Ubuntu 22.10 has been released and posts about it are no longer off-topic purely for being about 22.10 (of course, posts still should meet all the other criteria ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) reached End of Life on July 14, 2022
This will be enforced starting from July 14, 2022 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their life cycle. These releases are ...
Thomas WardMod
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Ubuntu 22.04 is released and posts about it are no longer off-topic
Now that 22.04 is released, questions pertaining to it are no longer off-topic (due to the version) as of Thu Apr 21 17:09:48 UTC 2022; however, they may still be closed for other reasons. New 22.04 ...
andrew.46Mod
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) reached End of Life on January 20, 2022
This will be enforced starting from January 20, 2022 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their standard support period. ...
Thomas WardMod
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Please consider not leaving feedback as Community♦
Thanks for reviewing. I really appreciate it.
Recently review got reformatted quite a lot. Personally, I don't like many of the changes. I guess I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. But about one feature in ...
ZannaMod
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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please flag posts that should be deleted
Just a quick PSA here - thanks to BeastOfCaerbannog I've realised that the new Recommend Deletion option in the Late Answers queue completes the review and gives you the option to leave the canned ...
ZannaMod
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Inconsistent date in close description
I am talking about this question: Software Updater is saying "You stopped the check for updates". What should I do?
The question was asked 11 months ago and the question was closed 12 ...
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End of Support Notice: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) reached End of Standard Support on April 30, 2021
This will be enforced starting May 1, 2021.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their standard support period. These releases are no ...
Thomas WardMod
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Policy Clarifications In Place on "End of Standard Support" and "End of Life"
Per the discussions yielded in Policy Change Proposal: "End of Standard Support" for ESM releases is effectively the "Not Supported" date for a release on Ask Ubuntu and 30 days of ...
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How should we handle questions from users asking how to brute force passwords or break encryption?
In my opinion questions that ask how to hack or bypass encryption should be closed as off-topic.
Here are some examples of some recent questions:
I don't have the LUKs password for my HP notebook
I ...
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Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (20.10) is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
(I'm a day late, I got busy with work stuff and at-home stuff)
As of about 17:39:04 UTC on October 22, 2020, Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla 20.10 has been officially released. The corresponding release ...
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installing software leads to "unmet dependencies" so question is closed...why?
I'd like some elaboration as to why this question on unmet dependencies was closed.
It's not an obscure package, although it's also not in the default repos.
Broadly, just asking how to install, and, ...
ZannaMod
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Mention official Ubuntu flavors in the off-topic close reason
Currently, one of the off-topic close reason's text is the following:
This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on ...
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No first post reviews for 13 hours?
I was reading this Meta question about a lack of first post reviews on multiple sites. It got my curiosity, so I went to the first post review queue and noticed there had not been a review in the ...
jokerdinoMod
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