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This is my experience using open source in general, as a developer (who mostly uses open source).

That’s concerningly bad luck, or an exaggeration. The entire Internet, hell, technology as we know it, operates on the premise that a bunch of open source code works ‘pretty well’.

It does work "pretty well" after you discover all of the quirks thorugh trial and error and then work around them :)

Go to GitHub and file a reproducible issue. In this case it might be “here’s a shell loop that runs a test 10 times. On my system it fails about 40 perfect of the time”

Not complaining about moderation but I do wonder why someone would disagree with the advice above.

Can you list some references to bad software you are using perhaps? Someone else who also uses open source software might be able to suggest a different tool or fix you may of not known about.

Every software will be bad software if you use it often enough to the point you step into some specific usage that developer and tester never imagine about.

The point isn't whether it is good or bad. The point is nobody use it like that thus nobody knows it would break.

The good thing about open source software in general is: if you complain and give a detailed procedure of how it happens, there is much higher chance somebody might looks into it (or yourself if you will). Closed source software in the other end: good luck, find a workaround if you hope or just stuck with it.

That's why I'm asking what I'm asking, but Open Source is also not guaranteed to be funded.

The keyword here is 'much higher'. It is of course not guaranteed. As a developer, if somebody already done the trouble shooting or even root cause finding for you. You are more likely to fix the bug first because it will only cost you a little time compares to other completely non-investigated error report. And that also benefit the users because they got the bug affecting them fixed earlier. This don't happen in closed source softwares.

Plenty of funded proprietary closed-source software are plagued with bugs too

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