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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Hey what about Kodi?

Kodi as a front end to jellyfin works great

100%.

Jellyfin looks like a nice alternative to Plex but I had all kinds of playback issues with it on different platforms. Kodi just works.

I tried Kodi, it was nice. Biggest issue was no Roku app...