What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?

cujo@sh.itjust.works to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 1060 points –

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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DWM, Newsboat, MPV, NSXIV

I don't think the lump of abbreviations here will help many people

Desktop window manager, miles per velociraptor, Ninal Santansy 14

Dark Wandering Menagerie, Minimum partial varnish, nobody said xylophone in Vermont

Department of Wide Movers, Mechanised Papal Vocalizer, Neverending Sandwich XIV

Disassembly With Malice, Multithreaded Pi Visualiser, and NASA Space eXplorer 4

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

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