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Closing against "Unity doesn't load. No launcher, no Dash appears"
We have this canonical post:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
Apparently this has been a common problem and this question currently has around ~480 linked posts, many of which ...
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Is it a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?
After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X ...
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Wubi, Windows 8 and 'wubildr.mbr' questions
I just saw this question and gave it my best shot:
How to remove Windows bootoption that results in 'wubildr.mbr'/0xc000007b error message?
Summary
User has a system with pre-installed ...
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The question is the same as mine, the accepted answer does not apply to me, how can I raise my own case?
In a post the question describes perfectly my situation but the answers (one of which is accepted) do not work for me. I imagine that the post will not attract any answers any longer.
On the one ...
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Failed first post audit by flagging as a duplicate. Is it correct?
While reviewing the first posts queue, I failed the following audit: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/799873
After I looked at the question, I just thought: “That must have been answered ...
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How to deal with low quality/duplicate questions which already have comments/answers?
I'm fairly new to Ask Ubuntu, but I'm noticing a lot of low quality questions, along the lines of: "wifi doesnt work" & "ubuntu overheating" which are very similar to other ...
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How to bring more attention to a non-duplicate
My question on Ask Ubuntu was flagged as duplicate. The post that was said to be my dupe did not apply to my circumstances, so I edited my question and voted for its reopening.
How many votes do I ...
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How to handle chains of "duplicate of..."?
Sometimes one post (P1) is commented "possible duplicate of P2". P2 itself is commented "possible duplicate of P3".
Example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/246610/how-to-increase-battery-duration-...
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How should new users be pointed to duplicate questions?
When the Ubuntu Stackexchange website gets used more (and possibly a lot of questions that would otherwise have been asked on the forums get asked here), we're going to run into the issue of pointing ...
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Should we have a blanket question for "Is this hardware compatible with Ubuntu?"
I know shopping recommendations are off-topic, but I think "Is this hardware compat" or "What hardware is compat" could have a useful answer that links to the Canonical certified hardware page.
A ...
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Among these 3 duplicate questions, which should be the `root`?
I want to mark the following three questions as duplicates, but I can't decide which one should be the 'root'. All of them are related to the usage of the Esc key in a Custom Shortcut within Unity.
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Duplicate questions by same user
Ashwin joined and immediately asked the same question twice within 4 hours:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/297351/ubuntu-13-04-is-not-booting
https://askubuntu.com/questions/297406/ubuntu-13-04-not-...
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How do we find high traffic duplicates?
I noticed that this question just got 10,000 views:
How to install java and enable java plug in for firefox in Ubuntu 12.04LTS?
I've flagged it to either be merged or have the answer removed so that ...
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What's the canonical "how do I downgrade?" question?
Today we got this one:
How to downgrade Ubuntu?
Which I knew was a dupe, but we have a bunch of these:
downgrading ubuntu from 11.10 to 10.04
Downgrade Ubuntu 11.10 to older release (8.10)
This ...
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Duplicates on other sites
As Unix and Linux Stack Exchange has just reached beta I noticed this question: Nano syntax highlighting for C# and/or ASP.Net duplicated here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/454/nano-syntax-...
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Is there a main question about appstream-cli hanging bug that we should dupe link to?
There are a lot of different questions around the bug with appstream-cli interfering with apt-get update commands, with much varying titles.
Some examples:
https://askubuntu.com/q/775108/320386
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What will happen when all questions are asked?
Over time, obviously more and more questions are asked on this site, and such, many people have the same questions, which are then considered duplicates, but eventually by way of law, eventually we ...
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
What to do when there are two different questions but they can be solved with the same answer (such as "What is 3 + 1" and "What is 2 + 2")?
Look at this question:
Icons from my ...
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How can a new user escalate an old unanswered question?
This question comes via an anonymous submission to Ask Slashdot: The problem with "Ask Ubuntu"
Say a new user has a problem, searches Ask Ubuntu and the UNIX site for a solution, and comes across an ...
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Mass duplicate flagging of "What kernel version does ubuntu X ship with?"
I propose that these questions:
Determine which kernel ships with which Ubuntu version
4.0.6 kernel in which ubuntu version?
what kernel version comes with ubuntu 10.04.1?
What kernel version comes ...
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"Errors on boot" duplicate questions
I have noticed a lot of questions lately about generic "errors on boot" (ACPI warnings and such).
Here are some that came up since June 1st:
How to fix these errors during boot?
Strange ...
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What is the canonical Ruby on Rails question?
Writing these down before we forget. We have a bunch:
Best way to Install Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Postgres, Heroku, GitHub, Using RVM?
How do I set up Ruby on Rails?
Step by step guide to install Ruby on ...
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How to handle bad title of original question?
I wanted to install Netbeans 8.1 and I searched the internet and everybody was talking about 8.0. So I though to ask: How to install netbeans v8.1 in Ubuntu 14.04?
I was lucky and the user who had ...
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What to do with widespread questions about issues updating?
At the time of updating the system, sometimes appears package errors. e.g.:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with something /var/lib/apt/lists/*
E: The package lists or ...
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Seek the difference
Not trying to start a dispute here, but I need clarity:
I ran into this question: How to record bash terminal output without suppressing the terminal output?, in which OP asks how to save terminal ...
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Duplicate question one with a (unaccepted) answer the other with none
I came accross to very similar questions.
The first is older, the comments on the question helped the Q find its own A. But the Answer was never marked as excepted: Cannot print from LibreOffice, but ...
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What to do with questions from here that have already been answered in another SE site?
Frequently, I see unanswered questions from this site that has been previously asked in another SE site (mostly SO) and this one has an answer that have worked for the OP.
Should I copy and paste the ...
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What do we in cases where users answer questions that have been marked as duplicates?
I have just marked a question as a duplicate and after sometime I have found other users answering it with the same answers like in the linked duplicate question.
How can I handle such cases?
I ...
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We have a dupe of a dupe [closed]
Title says it all.
This question is marked as a dupe of this question, which is marked as a dupe of this question :P
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When is ok to repost a question on linux.SE?
Ok, so I have been going back and forth on questions between askubuntu.SE and linux.SE. I don't mean to compare, but experience is telling me that I tend to get a better response rate on linux.SE. A ...
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Should questions be closed as duplicates based on warnings when the actual issue and error messages are unrelated to the linked question?
In the past days and much more frequently than before I came across questions in the close queue that were in review to be closed as a duplicate of How can I fix apt error “W: Target Packages … is ...
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Wrong duplicate chosen for closed question, okay to just edit in the correct one?
Hard to come up with a shorter or clearer title, sorry.
'Cannot Upgrade my Ubuntu' was closed as a dupe, and it is. The issue is that the wrong duplicate was chosen by mistake (with possibly none of ...
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Can we re-open this question asking how to throttle bandwidth per-user?
This question, 'Is there an easy way to limit user bandwidth usage?' was closed as a duplicate. The possible duplicate, 'How I can limit Download/Upload bandwidth?' does not answer the new question, ...
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Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard
No, I don't want to copy the screenshot of an area to the clipboard. But these users do:
How to get back previous screenshot functionality on 22.04?
Screenshot selection in 22.04
"Copy a ...
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Would it be useful to allow Meta duplicates after a certain amount of time?
Regarding the main Ask Ubuntu site, there are two Meta questions here that I found that mention "time" and "duplicates":
Primarily: Would it be useful to allow duplicates after x ...
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Is reverse voting or merging a solution in this case?
I just read a question, Is there a command to factory reset Ubuntu? (asked in Dec '16) which was closed as a duplicate of Resetting Ubuntu to factory settings (asked in Feb '15) back in Aug '18. But ...
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Should a question ever be considered for migration in anticipation of closure and merging?
When a question is cross-posted here and another Stack Exchange site, and it gets good, valuable answers on both sites, is it appropriate to flag one of them for migration so it can then be duped and ...
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Question "Does HUION K58 work with Ubuntu?" incorrectly marked as duplicate
The question Does HUION K58 work with Ubuntu? was marked as a duplicate of What hardware does Ubuntu Touch support? which is incorrect.
The original question is not asking about Ubuntu Touch, and the ...
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Possible wrongly closed question: "No space left on device" when installing packages, yet I have space left
I would like to point out that this question "No space left on device" when installing packages, yet I have space left should not be a duplicate of this other How do I resolve unmet ...
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What should we point duplicates of "how to upgrade while skipping in-between releases" to?
I've noticed that there seem to be a lot of questions which basically ask, "how can I upgrade my Ubuntu installation directly from version x to version z, skipping version(s) y in between?"
There ...
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Why is this marked a duplicate?
This question was marked a duplicate: Tried to install wireless driver and now terminal and update manager no longer work either
However, the link given, Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers contains ...
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Answer aglomerate, group of possible solutions for a frequent question
Is there a better way to answer the "upgraded and my 'random graphics maker string here' driver stopped working" (or any other derivatives of hardware category as long as its frequent)?
I have seen ...
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Duplicate questions
If I want to ask a question that has already been asked,but I can't understand its solution.Should I comment there for more explanation or ask mine by adding duplicate by myself.
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How strict should one be with questions on easily researchable questions?
Should a question like https://askubuntu.com/questions/710588/running-open-hardware-monitor-on-ubuntu-linux be flagged(no research effort) or answered? The top result on Google is the mono project(see ...
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question about "download[ing] packages for offline installation" incorrectly closed as duplicate
This question has been closed as a duplicate of this question. But I do not believe they are really asking the same thing. I think that the recent question is asked in a way that is unfortunately not ...
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Duplicate, remove the original or the duplicate
There is an original question that has an answer that is deprecated.
And now there is a duplicate question that has an answer.
Which question should persist?
Duplicate question: Network unclaimed ...
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Are these duplicates?
I am really not happy with the way questions are marked as duplicate lately.
A few recent examples:
This question could probably be closed for several reasons, but
not for being a duplicate of the ...
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Some merge candidates for Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual-booting questions
This looked a bit unwieldy for flagging, so I'm posting this here instead. I've looked through several of the dual-boot questions, trying to find ones that looked like duplicates. I have found ...
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Why do we close duplicate questions?
I know that on AskUbuntu, we close duplicate questions. What is the reason that we do that? Is it to narrow the amount of questions that exist on the site that way users don't need to sift through 20 ...
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Why was my question closed as a duplicate?
Why was my question Installing python: who is deadsnakes and why should I trust them? closed as a duplicate of Are PPAs safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out ...
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