And how would you know what email to contact in a case like this one? It’s not about “having email”

You can either go down the route of finding the team that owns the code and then contacting someone on that team, or by contacting someone you know from the company to look it up for you or report the bug on your behalf.

> the route of finding the team that owns the code and then contacting someone on that team

Nice circle, now the reader will only hav to fill in the rest of the owl.

The benefit of the open open development model of Linux is that you don't have to have "someone you know" on the inside or essentially spam whatever contacts you can dig up until you find someone who has pity on you. You have actually publicly available developers (from many different companies, including hardware manufacturers) as well as real bug trackers where you can find if other users have had the same issue.

And Twitter/X accounts.

I have had a lot more things fixed in Windows or MSVC from nagging devs on there than from reporting through any official channel.

+1 if you want to reach a real engineer they are going to be spending their free time on sites like X and not on sites like some community feedback and bug reporting form