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Elder Geek
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I've been wondering about this for awhile now and it dawned on me that I should run it up the flagpole here and see how it flies.

For example https://askubuntu.com/questions/950157/how-to-launch-this-simple-program-on-ubuntu-16-04 was recently rightly closed as unclear. The OP has since added some detail that made it clear that they were attempting to run a Windows executable from the CLI in Linux. It's my belief that even if the question was re-opened due to the slightly better clarity it would still end up closed again either as primarily opinion based or possibly as a duplicate of an existing question outlining perhaps how to install wine or virtualbox.

There's been some related discussion regarding changing close reasons on this MEta post and clearly some feel that sometimes this is important, not only for the benefit of future users but also for the benefit of the OP to understand the process. I can see both sides of this issue and would like to determine what the consensus opinion might be.

I've been wondering about this for awhile now and it dawned on me that I should run it up the flagpole here and see how it flies.

For example https://askubuntu.com/questions/950157/how-to-launch-this-simple-program-on-ubuntu-16-04 was recently rightly closed as unclear. The OP has since added some detail that made it clear that they were attempting to run a Windows executable from the CLI in Linux. It's my belief that even if the question was re-opened due to the slightly better clarity it would still end up closed again either as primarily opinion based or possibly as a duplicate of an existing question outlining perhaps how to install wine or virtualbox.

I've been wondering about this for awhile now and it dawned on me that I should run it up the flagpole here and see how it flies.

For example https://askubuntu.com/questions/950157/how-to-launch-this-simple-program-on-ubuntu-16-04 was recently rightly closed as unclear. The OP has since added some detail that made it clear that they were attempting to run a Windows executable from the CLI in Linux. It's my belief that even if the question was re-opened due to the slightly better clarity it would still end up closed again either as primarily opinion based or possibly as a duplicate of an existing question outlining perhaps how to install wine or virtualbox.

There's been some related discussion regarding changing close reasons on this MEta post and clearly some feel that sometimes this is important, not only for the benefit of future users but also for the benefit of the OP to understand the process. I can see both sides of this issue and would like to determine what the consensus opinion might be.

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Elder Geek
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Is it worth the time and effort to reopen a question so that it can be closed for the right reason?

I've been wondering about this for awhile now and it dawned on me that I should run it up the flagpole here and see how it flies.

For example https://askubuntu.com/questions/950157/how-to-launch-this-simple-program-on-ubuntu-16-04 was recently rightly closed as unclear. The OP has since added some detail that made it clear that they were attempting to run a Windows executable from the CLI in Linux. It's my belief that even if the question was re-opened due to the slightly better clarity it would still end up closed again either as primarily opinion based or possibly as a duplicate of an existing question outlining perhaps how to install wine or virtualbox.