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.

  • Anthony Lavado@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for the praise! We’re not on Lemmy too much, but someone in the Core Team caught site of this and shared it with me. If you’re wondering who I am: github

  • directive0@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Blender. I feel pretty confident in saying that there is simply nothing like it in the commercial world. Its feature set is unreal; its like the swiss army knife of 3D modelling programs. I can’t say enough good things about Blender. It has replaced so many secondary programs in my workflow and is slowly dominating to become my entire workflow.

    It used to suck to use in the late 2010s and then work was done to overhaul its space-shuttle cockpit interface, and now it actually feels concise and usable. I freaking love blender now. Big time blender fanboy right here.

    • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I use InkStitch for designing embroidery patterns on Inkscape and love it, especially because commercial embroidery design programs are so expensive. I won’t lie, it’s pretty clunky at the moment, but I hope to be able to contribute to it and really polish it up.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    All the Linux file managers I’ve tried are nicer to use and more stable than the Windows File Explorer.

  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    Hands down the clang C++ compiler, no commercial C++ compiler I’ve ever seen or even heard of even comes close enough that a comparison could be meaningful.

    • HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      I never expected to see a compiler in this list, at least not in 2023.

      Back in 1988 I realized how rubbish Microsoft was when I discovered Borland’s Turbo Pascal and Turbo C compilers. I’d previously used the MS compilers and they were multipass, multi-minutes to finish a compile. The Borland ones were single pass and FAST.

      Back then, compile times could be huge, and everyone was publishing benchmarks on compiled program performance, which mattered on the hardware of the day. I never even think about that stuff these days.