What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
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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Why would it? It's the same as original except for the removed telemetry and some proprietary module part. I don't think that could break much
I tried it but need the SSH extension as a daily driver (it's a MS one apparently). Didn't work, spent 30 minutes trying the suggestions found online but that didn't work either so had to get back to doing actual work instead of fiddling with an IDE.
Oh, that sucks. I'm going to edit my comment to mention this problem
I thought so too but then I read some complaints about some extensions breaking. I've never used it myself so 🤷♂️
It actually does. I can't remember what exactly it was, but I switched back to VSCode after a while
Some extensions simply didn't install/work properly
Pylance, I believe, doesn't work due to a Microsoft proprietary language server. But installing Pyright does most of the job. Something like that.
Interesting. I didn't install much extensions manually because most of then are available from the open store but the onees I needed, like Microsoft's C/C++ extension, worked fine