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.

635

You are viewing a single comment
View all commentsShow the parent comment

Did you know that MS now charges for you to play some codecs with windows media player?

Unless something has changed recently, that's not exactly true. They charge 99c for the distribution of it through the windows store (or whatever it's called) but you can install them the traditional way no problem

I think it's still dumb but it's a distinction worth making. I think the description even links the website where you can download it

looked it up, you’re right. The payment is for the codec out itself which is normally done by GPU companies and often can be downloaded for free.

My bad for not reading text on a window from Windows with a “$ please”.

So you admit you didn't read it, but then you happily go around spreading misinformation?

Why do you guys do that?

You can still pay 1$ for playing a codec in WMP. It’s still 90% correct.

People have been asking this same question since the existence of the internet.

I read that news. It was an out of season April Fools' joke, right?