I don't quite understand what was the point of closing   The question was able to get an answer with 4 up-votes! It was favorited and up-voted. It could bring profit to the community. So I don't see why other people intrusively jump in and say "this is off topic." Who should define what is off topic? I think the people interested in that particular question and answer should!  EDIT: The question is about HW, but that's closely related to SW. The reply clearly shows it's not offtopic as it speaks a lot about software and packages - and that's already a good fit for Stack Overflow!  EDIT: The answer there has been particularly useful. Don't tell me that this doesn't belong to SO, when SO is site for programmers! "... R appears to be able to use the GPU, see the gputools package and  for an introduction. You would probably need to make sure that this works on whatever system you plan to install R on (which needs special attention if you are running on Linux). NVidia tend to be the best choice, as they are supported with Linux drivers (although they tend to propietary)...."
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I frequently come across a really useful answer on StackOverflow which has been closed because it doesn't match the Q&amp;A format.  Examples include  ,  ,   ,  and there are others.  Where should this information be exchanged if it's not on stackoverflow?  It seems the moderators are often somewhat overzealous...  ---edit  When I say best, I mean they are informative and useful for someone who's looking for an answer to them.  Even if they do become a bit of a discussion, I value other people's opinions on the relative merits of the different JPA frameworks.  I come here looking to choose one and the answer helps me.  So what if it's not a definitive answer?  ---edit  I don't care how popular a question is, nor how interesting it is.  Users are interested in stuff that's useful to them.  Plenty of those were useful (as judged by the upvotes on the answers: 'This answer is useful'), but closed because they didn't have a definitive answer, as far as I can tell.  ---edit  Seems I'm not the first person to think this: there are various similar questions to mine like this one:   In it the user lists lots of other useful questions which have been closed:                    So isn't there a place on stackoverflow for these questions?  A discussion section, maybe?
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Was asked by a new Ubuntu user - who also wants to learn about programming - what he could use to run BASIC code. He was working through a BASIC book before trying out Ubuntu, and he'd like to continue without having to switch back to Windows.  It looks like there are a few BASIC packages in the standard repositories, as well as projects like Mono which may include some kind of BASIC support.   What would be a good recommendation from the standard repositories - or from a deb package - for someone learning the basics of BASIC and new to Ubuntu?
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I see that Stack&nbsp;Overflow is very Linux specific. Doesn't Unix &amp; Linux and Ask&nbsp;Ubuntu cover much of the same ground? I see that Unix &amp; Linux and Server&nbsp;Fault also cater to many Linux server questions. Similarly, Ask&nbsp;Ubuntu and Super&nbsp;User seems to contain most like questions.
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I don't know where to address my question. It is about hardware - I need to know which is the recommended hardware (PC).  Which is the site in which I can ask my question?   My question will be:     Where to find info about hardware required to make hackintosh?   I need specific models of MB and CPU - for best compatibilty.
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I want to ask about payment processors for use in a website. The one I found on Stack Overflow was closed because it's off-topic. None of the others automatically lend themselves to this question. Any ideas?
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Have you guys used ? The repository has not yet issued for 16.04 LTS, but besides, it might not be free anymore.  Is anyone watching Acestreams/Sopcast with any other software + where can I find such software?  Thank you!
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I'd like to know if there is any alternative to Deep Freeze for Linux that still under development, because I've read some things on the internet and looks like the same company which developed Deep Freeze had a Linux version of it, but the project was discontinued.
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I am buying a new desktop PC in early 2013, anyway this question should apply to someone intending to buy a new laptop/ultrabook as well.  This machine is not meant for gaming, and if I ocasionally do it, I can survive with minimum graphics. However I may need some heavy multimedia edition or multitasking at times, so basically  my greatest priority is a good processor, after that perhaps average graphic card (if onboards are not enough, I am still not informed enough about that), at least 4GB of RAM with possibility of expansion.  I know there are some PC models specially designed to ship with Ubuntu, which is the OS I use the most these days. However, most people around me use Windows and some software with unsupported versions for Linux and not having a Windows license becomes a bit problematic.  Given that, I would like to find information about which PC models or even manufacters currently on the market have the best compatibility with Ubuntu, I am still undecided between building my own desktop or buying a pre-made model, so I would like to find information both for certified models and certified hardware or even Ubuntu partners that may work closely with Canonical.  Where to find this information in order to make sure that I will have a good experience with Ubuntu on my new PC in the years to come?
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I want to know if there is a centralised community site where all Hardware is listed in terms of compatability with Linux. Something like AppDB for Wine.
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I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots.  I uninstalled the proprietary driver and found that Unity 3D no longer works, and I really only picked Ubuntu because of the excellent shortcuts provided in the recent versions.   Trying to locate the open source driver has been a pain for me. According to the documentation I have read it is pre-included in Ubuntu 12.04, yet there is no Unity 3D support. I tried using the newest drivers from AMD's website, but that also had the watermark.  Does anyone know how I can get the open source driver? If not, does anyone know how to remove the watermark. I'm on the verge of going back to Windows.
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I want to enable GPU rendering, but there is no option in User Preferences > System:    Why is this? How can I get cycles to render using my GPU?
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I've installed the  (beta) following the step in  for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal. My system is 64 bit and my graphic card is an ATI RadeonHD 6670, this g.c. is Officially Supported (Catalyst &amp; Open Source), you can confirm that from this .  I don't have any problem, except the AMD testing use only watermark. I see the following frame in any stage into the OS (logged, unlloged, etc.) except in the terminals.     I found different versions of how to remove this image, but this change according to the system, so I want an answer from this popular (trusted) site.   How to solve this issue in Ubuntu 12.10 32b? This procedure is different in a 64b system?
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I am using Blender 2.77 and an R7 250 GPU on Windows.  Compute Device >> OpenCL (Oland).  OpenSubdiv >> (Tested with all).  Device >> GPU Compute.
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Stuff like polls, recommendations based on subjective constraints, puzzles, webcomics etc. do not belong on the serious main SE sites, where professionals should be considered at work and having just a few spare minutes ("code's compiling") to answer questions, so they should not be distracted by such things. However, I'd also like to have a home for these things still using the SE engine. For the reason I mentioned before, this needs to be a separate place though. Let's call it four.[sitename-here].com.
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For you that have tested this, should we use Ubuntu and install different Desktop Environments (KDE/XFCE...) or we should install different distributions (Kubuntu/Xubuntu...). Are there any notable issues in performance / CPU consumption?  PS:  I know how to install them (already did), I wanted to know if anyone has any problems regarding the performance and what is better to install the desktop or to use the ditribution
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I just installed Ubuntu for the first time and am trying to figure a way to play Windows games on Linux. I've read you need to use Wine, and I'm just wondering how exactly I go about doing this correctly. I've read a lot of conflicting information.
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My motivation: I wasn't sure where to ask a question about the GnuGPG tool - should it be Stack Overflow, or Server Fault, or Super User?  Ultimately, I decided by searching for "GPG" on the three sites and seeing which had the most questions with the highest votes.  Could a tool help with this?