Moved to answer

Else it's Too Localized*

Try visiting the site not logged in (Incognito) to see the new user experience. The "tour" is pushed onto them and gives them a low down of the site. Given that we're getting over 120 questions an hour I don't think people are having a hard time finding that button :)

It's funny, every design iteration everyone asks to make the Ask button more distinguished. They asked to move Ask from below the nav on the aubergine to the top nav, now it's in the top nav and it's not good enough ;) I think people will find the button, it's even more obvious to users who aren't logged in.

@MeerBorg It matches the identity and branding of ubuntu.com

Also, we cross many deltas with Stack Overflow, Unix and Linux, Super User, and Server Fault. Just because there's some level of duplication doesn't really matter. If it's about Ubuntu and the user chose to ask here, we should respect that.

@Aditya not an answer is fine, but it slows my workflow down as I have to try to figure out why it's not an answer. Flagging with Other and just saying "Should be a comment" helps provide those chugging through the moderator queue with some context

It's a paraphrasing of what has been agreed upon. If you want references search in meta (I'll try to find a few)