@evan one annoying case when you're dealing with long term support Linux distros is that you might have an old version of software with a bug that has long since been fixed, but it's not a "security" issue, so the only thing you can really do is work around it.

I do generally try to report issues if I'm working with newer software, tho I might still need a short term workaround too. PRs are less common but I've done a few.