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 – 1057 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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KDE is better than Windows

Audible Audacity is more audio programme than most people need

KdenLive is more video editor than most people need

Kritta is more art programme than most people need

There are edge cases where there are professional programmes that might be better but unless you are a professional you do not need them and even semi-pros would likely be better served by those three

Windows just rips off every plasma feature at this point, even kde devs make fun of it

luckily windows users, and the rest of people that go outside, can laugh at y'all for finding this niche content funny.

then we can laugh at you having a superiority complex because of the way you navigate the internet. ever done a one arm pullup or anything else that's somewhat of a physical challenge? its like crack to train.

I am 85kg 180cm tall and currently have 25% bf. Yes, I lift and I don't see how this is relevant.

Agreed with everything. As a programmer, I use the IntelliJ suite (mainly PHPStorm, WebStorm, GoLand, RubyMine, PyCharm, and IDEA), which is basically industry standard in most companies (except those fuckers who still use Eclipse or NetBeans).

They are used a lot but I don't think they could be called industry standard. Tons of people run vim, emacs and such aswell the occasional vendor provided IDE. Probably like 60% of software engineers run IntelliJ.

I am yet to find a job where a single person uses Vi(m) or Emacs. And I've been to some big companies.

Perhaps nobody says they use it out loud although knowing vim users (and being one myself) they tend to be very willing to share how bad a mouse is for productivity while programming and how using vim is the ultimate solution. As for emacs I only ever have seen greybeards use it and it dosen't to have had much of a revival with the newer generations.