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Re:Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome by Klover on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:35AM (#15797583)
Anecdotal and late to the party, but I once encountered a bug in the Fedora installer. The installer guided me through the process of reporting the bug, including screenshot taking, including and uploading. It told me helpful tips on writing the bug report itself. I believe it even guided me on how to create an account, and so I got frequent updates in my spam account on how the bug got fixed and when and what happened with it.

Recently I tried out their new Fedora 27 release, did the same steps to reproduce the bug, and no bug encountered! I was extremely impressed, being totally new to open source and the development of it.

Your experience may have been neutral at worst, mine was super positive. I highly recommend you try! I got a fun experience out of that little tech adventure.

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Re:Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome by dilap on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:01PM (#15799003)
Wow, that's a really nice experience.

I should note in fairness that many bugs I report into Apple's black hole of a bug reporting tool also don't end up fixed. Maybe I just report weird bugs :-)

(An example of one I reported against Mac OS that got emailed as fixed, but still happens, though less frequently: Sometimes when alt-tabbing, the system will act as though the tab key were never released.)

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