I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.

It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.

What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?

EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into “smaller” instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can’t remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.

  • ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    10 months ago

    Vivaldi is not 100% open source

    Also i would add qBittorrent to the “great” list, and LibreCAD to the “wish it was better” list

    • okamiueru@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Ah, good to know. I found the source code for Vivaldi, but it probably has some proprietary bits so you cannot build it yourself? I’ll remove it from the list.

    • okamiueru@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      qBittorrent

      Are there non-FOSS qBittorrent clients? I didn’t mention it since it doesn’t feel like a thing. I don’t count MacOS software, as there you’ll find commercial apps for anything you can imagine. You can probably find a paid app to do Alt+Tab correctly.