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Does cancelling the operation while copying a .mkv file split it into 2 parts?

No, canceling a copy or a move of a file does not modify the original file. Your 3.2 GB file is still intact as it was before the move/copy. In fact, when you copy a file from one location to ...
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Laptop's speakers sound bad. Poor sound quality

According to https://forum.manjaro.org/t/solved-terrible-sound-in-linux-much-better-in-windows/8203/6 and http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc We have to do some manual settings editing ...
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Is it ok to enable proposed updates during Ubuntu's development cycle?

"There is very little benefit to users in using -proposed during the development cycle and such use is strongly discouraged."1 After a new stable release of Ubuntu, testers are encouraged to use the -...
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Is it ok to enable proposed updates during Ubuntu's development cycle?

For development releases proposed does not make any sense to turn on. It is used for automated package testing. But for stable releases you can enable proposed if you want to test unstable packages ...
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Strategy to deal with Canonical's increasingly poor QA?

The drastic alternative is to switch to Debian Stable, rather than any *buntu or derivative thereof, because Debian Stable has been through its full QA process, whereas Ubuntu is derived from Debian ...
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How can I use the convert program of ImageMagick and also keep the quality?

After several searches on other websites (outside of Ask Ubuntu) I found the solution regarding the quality. The code would be like this: convert -density 300 foo.ps -quality 100 foo.png.
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Poor sound quality

You can install pulseaudio-equalizer to improve the sound quality
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Sound distortion in headphones

I finally found the solution to this problem https://okubuntu.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/distortions-in-left-earphone/
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