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A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
Questions about Wubi, a way to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows without partitioning. However, it's been abandoned for years and is depreciated.
Questions related to webcam setup/configuration. Please mention your model/make of webcam when asking questions.
Docker is a container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers for applications. Use this tag for questions on how to build and run container images, as well as how to properly conf…
Questions relating to Microsoft's Skype VOIP application and services.
A method of connecting to the internet through an intermediary (a proxy server) which handles connections and redirects them.
a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts
Covers questions related to file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system.
Daemons are programs that constantly run in the background. They usually service requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.
A Microsoft file system, used in Windows NT (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. It is Ubuntu's default e-mail client since 11.10.
For questions regarding disk storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives.
Questions that refer to a software or an OS feature allowing applications, either command line programs or graphical applications, to be run remotely on a server, while being displayed locally.
The GNU Compiler Collection is the standard compiler system used on many Unix-like operating systems, including Linux. Originally meant for compiling C programs, it can now also handle C++, Java and s…
Metal as a Service – MAAS – lets you treat physical servers like virtual machines in the cloud. Rather than having to manage each server individually, MAAS turns your bare metal into an elastic cloud-…
Questions about the GTK+ graphical user interface toolkit. Used by desktops such as Cinnamon, GNOME, XFCE, Budgie, Mate, and Unity.
A very-small, single-board computer. Use this tag only for questions about interoperability between Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu; general questions about Raspberry Pi belong on raspberrypi.stackexchange.co…
OpenVPN is a free and open source software application that implements virtual private network (VPN)
Questions about modifying, creating or parsing plain text files. This is a very broad tag, if your question is about using a specific tool, please tag it with the tool's name as well (e.g. sed, awk, p…
This non-LTS version of Ubuntu, code-named "Utopic Unicorn", was released on Oct. 23, 2014. It reached End-of-Life on July 23, 2015. Newer questions should be considered off-topic.
Questions about how to use/mount/burn/create ISO images.
A bootloader is a small program that gets executed at startup time. The bootloader loads data and other startup process into RAM where they can be executed.
A part of the filesystem owned by a particular user, where the user's files are saved and user-specific configuration files are written and used by applications.
refers to Kernel-based Virtual Machines; for questions about KVM switches, use the [kvm-switch] tag instead
Issues with external HDD including USB, Firewire (IEE1394) and e-sata connections as well as issues relating to mounting, formatting and partitioning.
CUDA stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture
Headphones are a set of two speakers placed over the ears to hear sound from the computer without disturbing anyone else. Headphones are connected to a computer or other audio-playing device by a jack…
Graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer.
Questions that relate to the electronic display (sometimes called a visual display unit) for computers. Typically questions relate to visual issues such as flickering, resolution, black-screens toget…
LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel
Hibernation (ACPI S4 or HTD) is a power-saving mode in which the machine state is written to disk, either a swap partition or swap file, allowing the device to be completely powered off. On resume, th…
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network configuration protocol that assigns IP addresses and gateway configuration automatically.
A .desktop file is a launcher. When run, it executes a command, which usually launches an application. Use this tag if you are asking a question about using a .desktop file or about the .desktop file…
Questions related to restarting Ubuntu machines.
Downloading a file is taking a file stored on a remote machine or attached device and transferring it to your computer to be stored.
The lock screen lets a user lock the currently-running session behind a password screen. This screen may either be blank or show a screensaver until mouse or keyboard activity is detected.
Questions about 16.10 are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was a non-LTS version released on October 13, 2016. It became End Of Life (EOL) on July 20, 2017.