Unanswered Questions
33 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Do we have a canonical question about custom resolutions with Wayland?
I just saw yet another question about why xrandr isn't working to add a custom resolution after updating the OS, and I think we should have a canonical question about this.
Do we have a comprehensive ...
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I think my question got mistakenly marked as a duplicate, help?
In order to help explain the difference between Ubuntu, its flavors, unofficial remixes, and unofficial derivatives, I created a self answered question called "Ubuntu, Ubuntu Flavors, Ubuntu ...
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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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Inconsistent date in close description
I am talking about this question: Software Updater is saying "You stopped the check for updates". What should I do?
The question was asked 11 months ago and the question was closed 12 ...
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installing software leads to "unmet dependencies" so question is closed...why?
I'd like some elaboration as to why this question on unmet dependencies was closed.
It's not an obscure package, although it's also not in the default repos.
Broadly, just asking how to install, and, ...
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Should these VMware questions be re-closed as duplicates?
This is a follow-up to Kulfy's question Can these VMWares be un-merged?
The requested unmerge was done, and questions closed against the former merge target were reopened. Attempts were made to close ...
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Possibly similar question (or even accounts)?
Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now:
Convert .ods document to .docx document
Converting .ods to .docx file
Apparently, both OPs have also ...
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It asks something different, and it needs a different answer, so can we reopen it?
Edit: question reopened. Thanks :)
Can you have too much swap? is closed as a duplicate of I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap?
But the first question is asking what problems might arise from ...
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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About retracted flags and the comment persisting
Case in point: How do I convert my usb installation from legacy boot to uefi?
By mistake I flagged as duplicate but later on noticed it was about Elementary OS. Retracted but the comment persists?
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Add a feature for similarity comparison
It'd be nice if answers which are an exact copy of an existing (possibly upvoted) answer or contain large substring of such an answer and few own text - which should be a comment on the copied answer -...
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Are you tested with Duplicates in the review queues?
In the review queues I have never once been tested with a question that has been flagged as duplicate. Does SE not test you on those? And if so, why not? Or have I just not had any?
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Question marked as already solved incorrectly
Is it possible migrate existing programs installed in windows?
This question is "how to migrate already installed (under Windows) applications to Wine".
And the question linked as already answered is ...
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Should voting to close a correctly closed question for the right reason really be considered failure?
I encountered this review audit. To test me, the review item told me the question had received close votes as primarily opinion-based. This was obviously wrong, which I recognized quickly, but I saw a ...
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Top answers are still sub-optimal on questions about MTP devices
I already noticed that Luis alone marked the following question as a duplicate some time ago: My MTP capable device is not detected? What can I do about that?
Here is my observation on the topic:
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