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 – 1052 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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And KDE looks so much better than windows' DE. It's also more versatile.

Gnome just copied Apple, which I guess somebody had to do in order to have them switch to something that looks familiar.

elementaryOS has tried so hard to fill that niche, and they got so far. I just always run into the weirdest issues when I try and daily drive their distro.

Honestly in the end it probably doesn't even matter

Honestly I love pantheon, feels more natural to me than aqua at this point