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.

  • janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    1 year ago

    Are we allowed FOSS alternatives to common FOSS apps lol? In which case, I’m saying NeoStore > F-Droid.

    Also, separately, Zotero > all commercial reference manages and increasingly over PDF readers too.

    • chfour@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      honestly neo store was really buggy for me and droidify seems to work better

    • selawdivad@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      I used Zotero all through uni, but I’ve recently discovered JabRef. Zotero probably has more features and polish, but JabRef has one killer feature: Your plaintext BibLaTeX file is your reference database. So you can version control and collaborate on your reference file with git. No export required.