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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If you ever feel your job is useless, remember it is someone's job to maintain Edge for Linux.

I wonder what % of Linux users are using Edge, and what their reasoning is.

"Every morning while I drink my coffee, I start up Ubuntu, load up Microsoft Edge, have a good laugh, and then close it."

Our webapp is exclusively used on locked-down windows machines, with Edge only. Firefox and Chromium are useful for debugging, but testing and signoff is done in Edge. We use Linux machines for development and test suites, so having Edge available on these systems reduced a lot of complexity in our pipeline.

Anything other than that, Firefox every time.

The real question is who uses Powershell for Linux

I'm not gonna lie, I tried it out of sheer curiosity

raises hand sheepishly

Honestly Powershell is an awesome scripting language. Having it open source and cross platform is great. I used it on my Mac, we have it in our Linux pipelines and having integrated support for it in Jenkins makes it easy to use everywhere.

I know people like to beat up on MS but Powershell is a great shell experience once you get past the learning curve.

I couldn't get past cmdlets. I want to pronounce it "cummuddlets", but I think it is supposed to be "commandlets" and I wonder who has the time to be saying that every time.

I'm sure if you have for example windows and linux machines to manage it has applications xD

Wait that's a thing? Oh, gods. I'm almost tempted, just to see what that's like, but... no. 😂