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To quote the Help Center: Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about … computer hardware, computer software, or personal and home computer networking Mozi …

Ubuntu using WSL would definitely be on-topic here at Super User. This doesn't mean it would be off-topic in the other sites you mentioned, though - both have tags for windows-subsystem-for-linux. The …

If an integral parameter of the question is different - in your case, different operating systems - it's a different question. I ask a new question, and add a clarifying sentence down the lines of "I …

According to the Asking page, you shouldn't ask questions about "issues specific to corporate IT support and networks". From this, I assume that Server Fault would be a better place for such a questi …

"Needs more focus" seems right to me. A question that amounts to "give me teh codez" is not "a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer" - as opposed to "here is the macro I' …

As a general concept, editing other people's posts is meant as a tool to help improve them without significantly changing their content - e.g., fixing typos, improving grammar, improving markdown form …

This question already has a couple of answers, and is closed as "too broad". If you later understood that the issue is different enough to invalidate the current answers, I'd post a new question. Addi …

To add to @Mokubai's answer - it's not only mods who don't get rep for this. High rep users can also cast delete votes (through the VLQ review queue at 2K reputation and directly at 20K), and do not g …

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To quote the close reasons: Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. So, in …

If you think it's "essentially spam", you're in fact saying that it's spam. In other words, if the whole point of the answer is to promote some off-site product/site/resource, and the answer doesn't s …

The boundaries between the various SE sites aren't always cut and dry, and this question could easily be on-topic on several sites, including Super User, Unix and Linux, Ask Different, and potentially …

I came across this answer in the First Answers review queue which I wasn't sure about, so I was hoping to get some insight from other members of the community. On the one hand, it does kinda-sorta add …

Post texts are rendered in markdown. By default, whitespaces will be stripped (as happens in HTML, e.g.). You can explicitly format your answer with markdown tags, as well as a limited subset of HTML …

Probably not - Super User is for technical questions. Asking about package manager's popularity is something between being opinion-based and a software recommendation, both of which are explicitly off …