off-topic: askubuntu.com/questions/404047/…

But would like the answer to that myself!

As of the OP's shortening in revision 2 (which was after closure), this seems good subjective rather than bad subjective to the extent to which it is even subjective at all.

Although the linked Q is related and answers part of it, this question is really asking if installing Ubuntu+1 and upgrading it to stable is a viable alternative to upgrading from the previous release. That is no more subjective or opinion-based than the vast majority of "can I ..." questions on Ask Ubuntu. I think we should reopen this.

@EliahKagan is a dupe either way of this

I really don't see any value in having stats for just one version

@Braiam I don't think it is really a dupe of that. The suggested duplicate does not address or include in its scope whether or not installing Ubuntu+1 and upgrading it to stable is a viable alternative to upgrading from the previous release, which is what the OP of the recently closed question really wants to know.

@Braiam I don't know what you mean by "stats"; are you thinking of a different (rolled back) revision? Also, this is not version-specific; for example, the ideas in my comment on the recently closed question apply overall and not specifically to any one version of Ubuntu.

@Braiam Close as no repro or unclear. OP never replied to comments.

@EliahKagan He's asking for "opinions".

> Would it update appropriately through the package manager (even if daily?), or would I find myself installing from source, or having far too many bugs to use as a daily?

btw, long time no see :)

@Seth He's asking if it's reasonable to do something we all know is not reasonable to do. Alpha and betas are not more stable than a new system that's been upgraded to from another release, even taking possible upgrade-related issues into account. I don't see a request for "opinions" in the question, but I do think the question is written in such a way that makes it easy to be fooled into thinking it's more opinion based than it really is.

To the extent to which the question we're talking about looks like it should be closed, it's an XY problem, because what the OP really wants to know can be answered objectively. My comment on it would be fine as an answer, even (with or without its first good subjective sentence).

This is either a duplicate or off-topic, and either way can be closed: askubuntu.com/questions/404212/…

spammer:

spammer: askubuntu.com/users/234854/jrg

@EliahKagan I prefer OT rather than dupe, dupe means that if the question hasn't been asked before we wouldn't close it ;)

@Braiam I don't agree that dupe means that. I think closing questions as duplicates is preferable to any other close reason whenever the duplicate question will likely solve the OP's problem. This helps OPs but more importantly it helps other people who are searching; when they find the closed question, they are immediately directed to one that will likely help them. But you should vote your conscience. In this case OT's certainly also a correct close reason.

@EliahKagan err... let's say that the target duplicated doesn't exist, which close reason would you select? or will you replace fedora by ubuntu to make it on-topic?

@Braiam Off-topic. And let's say it were on-topic. What close reason would you select? The truth is that it is both and we should pick whatever close reason we think is best; both close reasons are acceptable, but only one of them will direct Ubuntu users who have searched and found the question to the right place. This is both generally helpful and directly lessens the harm caused by this particular off-topic question.

But this is a relatively minor matter; if it had been closed as off-topic, I wouldn't bother trying to change it. :)

as I said in this meta question, duplicate should only be used if the question is good enough to be asked in the site

You said many things in that meta question; I think that one happens to be wrong. I don't think the score of 5 on a post where that wasn't the main idea in the post represents a community consensus on this issue (or a strong consensus about anything in the post). Please remember that we can still delete this question. It's value as a duplicate is very low: if I could delete-vote it now, I would do so. Deleting bad duplicates that don't help is an ideal solution to the problem.

@EliahKagan there is no damage, he wants help and we include a link to where he can get it for distros other than Ubuntu, you can include the link if you want, but closing as duplicated is saying that the question is both good and ontopic

@Braiam Why? Why does closing it as a duplicate say it's both good and on-topic?

I'm with Eliah on this, I think dupes is a better closing than OT.

OK, you know what, let me post a meta question about this

Sounds good.

@Alvar What kind of spammers are we talking about this time? They're impersonating other users O_o

bug askubuntu.com/q/156720/169736

@Seth and moderators, saying that they are moderators, and that posts are bad, etc...

bug askubuntu.com/q/273017/169736

no repro askubuntu.com/q/273017/169736

ot or dupe askubuntu.com/q/152943/169736

ot askubuntu.com/q/77486/169736