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Free, open-source operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu questions are on topic here, but if you prefer an Ubuntu-only audience there is Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com/).

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How to boot a USB to reinstall windows when I have ubuntu installed?

My ubuntu system is basically useless now because it always says the error "Errors were found while checking the disk drive for /". I can't do anything with it because of that. :( and I want to go ...
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Installing gmock on ubuntu

I've been struggling with installing gmock on Ubuntu for a while now and I'm therefore turning to you since I'm pretty sure it should not be hard and that I'm just missing something essential. I have ...
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FFmpeg high CPU usage Ubuntu Server

I have compiled FFmpeg to be able to stream Music Player Daemon (MPD) Digital Rights Management (DRM) streams, everything works but after about 1–2 hours the CPU starts to increase inhtop and my load ...
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VirtualBox bridged network No Internet in ubuntu 18.04

I am having windows 10 Host and virtual box 6.0.1 latest. problem: scenario 1: I configured virtualbox bridged network adapter and i installed 3 Ubuntu 18.04.1(dhcp enabled) all VMs are getting ...
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?

I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 stuck on login loop

My computer was running fine until yesterday night, but today it is stuck in a login loop. I tried going into recovery mode from grub and reconfiguring dpkg packages, but it didn't work, tried ...
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Not able to ping Windows Host from WSL2

I have enabled WSL2 on my Windows 10 desktop. Till recently, I was able to reach/connect to applications installed on Host from WSL2. However, now for testing purposes when I ping the host, I get &...
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How to boot into ubuntu directly?

I am dual booting Ubuntu 15.10 and Windows 10. The problem is that the system boots directly into Windows. There is no grub menu shown during startup. In order to boot into Ubuntu I have to press ESC ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 with ssh1 and ~/.ssh/config

With Ubuntu 15.10 and before, I had a host entry with "Protocol 1" in my .ssh/config file. Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't have support for SSH1 anymore per default. corben@ubuntu1604:~$ ssh -1 host ssh1 is ...
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How to move Linux Swap Partition - GParted

I have a dual boot machine with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I want to allocate my space to my home partition but I have to move my Linux Swap Partition. How can I do it? Here are my partitions ...
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Forwarding yubikey to Ubuntu Guest with Hyper-V causes Blue Screen

I am using Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 in a Hyper-V guest. Version information: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (x64) 10.0.22631 Build 22631 Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04 Kernel 6.5.0-44-generic I am trying ...
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apache 2.4 permissions issues (forbidden)

This is driving me nuts! Just installed Ubuntu 14.04 with Apache 2.4.7. I've found a ton of posts on this issue but nothing seems to work. I do have ACLs enabled, but neither -b (removing entry) or ...
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How to change root password in kubuntu?

I forgot my root password and all other passwords as well. I can't login. I want to log in with grub but can't find a way to get grub and the 'shift' doesn't help. My version is Kubuntu 18.04. Please ...
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wifi p2p between ubuntu 14.04 and android

I attempted to make a wifi p2p connection between Ubuntu 14.04(kernel 3.13) and Android 4.4 Kitkat(Samsung Galaxy Note 2) In Ubuntu I use wpa_supplicant v2.1 which is built in to Ubuntu 14.04(/sbin/...
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Samba shares won't accept my credentials with Ubuntu 22 LTS/Windows 10

I have the following share set up on Ubuntu 22 LTS: [share] path = /home/user/trunk browsable = yes writeable = yes public = yes I ran sudo smbpasswd -a user and set the password to be the same as ...

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