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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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

My Pop!_OS system has never shown me ads for Candy Crush.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Signal. Who else is making a post quantum secure e2ee algorithm and making sure the code is open source and not duplicating the keys everywhere? Thank goodness for the kind devs on this project and for other FOSS projects everywhere!

[–] anthonylavado@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please post on lemmy! I really liked seeing the devs give updates on Reddit.

An open source platform feels completely natural for a project like jellyfin!

[–] anthonylavado@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean we have !jellyfin@lemmy.ml

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Have you used zbrush? I heard someone talk down blender in favour of zbrush and some other one for colouring ad texture, then maxon.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Pandoc. I'm not even sure there is a decent alternative.

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DWM, Newsboat, MPV, NSXIV

[–] 01011@monero.town 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

newsboat and mpv are awesome. How is nsxiv better than sxiv?

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't know any differences, as I wasn't using Linux back when sxiv stopped being developed.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

gimp

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Awesome for being a free tool, but it pales in comparison to Photoshop.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but I'm still waiting for mac style column browse mode in nautilus 😒

[–] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Columns became the dealbreaker when I was considering switching from macOS to Linux. I need my columns.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

ElementOS's file browser has them.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Inkscape?

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 points 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.