What are you thinking here? a couple of hours and i'm done? Because this offhand comment would take me months, possibly years to actually be able to do. I know what I don't know - and it's a lot.
I think it would be far more useful of myself and others, to properly identify and raise bugs so that developers with the proper knowledge and skill can address it.
The assumption that just anyone can contribute and resolve these issues is extremely generous, and unrealistic. Maybe if you're fresh out of school, you have the time available to truly dig in. But when you're working a FT job, and have a side project, and a life - there is no time for such a deep dive with such little yield. Because not only do you not know the language, you don't know the codebase and you don't know the domain. That's an awful lot to catch up on to fix a bug.
I agree people can be more involved with the software they use. But I think that can play out in many different ways, suited for what each person can bring to the table.
Oh, you properly identified and raised the bug? From the comment, it sounded like you abandoned ship and installed Fedora (which may or may not eventually have the same bug).
You're not wrong - I jumped to fedora (which did not have any of the bugs I experienced). But FWIW, many of them already had been identified elsewhere. Fedora has had it's own bugs of course - though minor ones. I have taken the time to raise them within the Fedora community, but I couldn't do that with debian and it's descendants because the system was in an unusable state (the bugs)
What are you thinking here? a couple of hours and i'm done? Because this offhand comment would take me months, possibly years to actually be able to do. I know what I don't know - and it's a lot.