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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.

Elder Geek
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