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281 votes

Why does a Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox run very, very slowly?

263 votes

Really verbose way to test Git connection over SSH?

233 votes

How to exclude/ignore hidden files and directories in a wildcard-embedded "find" search?

212 votes
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Can I set my user account to have no password?

180 votes

Should I always restart the system when I see "System restart required"?

105 votes
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How can I install Ubuntu encrypted with LUKS with dual-boot?

75 votes
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How do I manually install a man page file?

69 votes

Gconf, Dconf, Gsettings and the relationship between them

65 votes
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Why do question mark characters appear when changing the permissions of directory?

63 votes
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Can I smoothly upgrade from one LTS to next LTS release?

48 votes
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How do I delete all packages which match a certain pattern?

42 votes
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Why does this grep command not work?

40 votes

How can I make shutdown not require admin password?

36 votes
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Can I delete incremental backups made with Déjà Dup?

29 votes
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How can I create one logical volume over two disks using LVM?

25 votes
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How can I install a Gsettings Schema without root privileges?

24 votes
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How can I set Déjà Dup to keep backups for less than six months?

24 votes
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Where can I get a device with 'Ubuntu for phones' pre-installed?

23 votes
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What file size units do applications on Ubuntu use?

23 votes
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What is the most robust archive format?

22 votes

How do I remove Steam?

20 votes
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Should I install programs from a source tarball (`.tar.gz`), from the Ubuntu Software Centre, or from elsewhere?

17 votes

How do I install a .deb file via the command line?

15 votes
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Strange file issues on Ubuntu 21.10 with ZFS

14 votes
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How can I know which commands were installed with a package?

14 votes
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Why can't you have multiple instances of Synaptic?

14 votes

How can I resize an LVM partition? (i.e: physical volume)

12 votes

How do I access a mounted Windows share from the command line?

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Why should I trust the "System program problem detected" dialog?

12 votes
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How can I use DropBox as a simple backup?

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