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.

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

VLC absolutely wrecked Windows Media Player. Firefox was the same with IE.

[–] anthonylavado@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the praise! We're not on Lemmy too much, but someone in the Core Team caught site of this and shared it with me. If you're wondering who I am: github

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Blender. I feel pretty confident in saying that there is simply nothing like it in the commercial world. Its feature set is unreal; its like the swiss army knife of 3D modelling programs. I can't say enough good things about Blender. It has replaced so many secondary programs in my workflow and is slowly dominating to become my entire workflow.

It used to suck to use in the late 2010s and then work was done to overhaul its space-shuttle cockpit interface, and now it actually feels concise and usable. I freaking love blender now. Big time blender fanboy right here.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Signal. Who else is making a post quantum secure e2ee algorithm and making sure the code is open source and not duplicating the keys everywhere? Thank goodness for the kind devs on this project and for other FOSS projects everywhere!

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My Pop!_OS system has never shown me ads for Candy Crush.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bitwarden password manager. I've used several proprietary PW managers, Bitwarden is by far the most stable, intuitive, and functional IMO.

[–] BoneALisa@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bitwarden is so good. I cant be bothered to self host it tbh, but ill gladly throw money their way for premium for having the best cloud-hosted PW manager

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My argument for self host of something that needs to be ultra secure is, they will do a better job at it than me.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Inkscape?

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I use InkStitch for designing embroidery patterns on Inkscape and love it, especially because commercial embroidery design programs are so expensive. I won't lie, it's pretty clunky at the moment, but I hope to be able to contribute to it and really polish it up.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

gimp

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Awesome for being a free tool, but it pales in comparison to Photoshop.

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DWM, Newsboat, MPV, NSXIV

[–] 01011@monero.town 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

newsboat and mpv are awesome. How is nsxiv better than sxiv?

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't know any differences, as I wasn't using Linux back when sxiv stopped being developed.