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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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[–] dantheclamman 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Desktop: Zotero, RStudio, Thunderbird, Sumatra PDF, Notepad++, NoMacs (image viewer), Espanso (text expander), qBittorrent, Inkscape

Android: FairEmail or K9 Mail, Authenticator Pro, Feeder, F-Droid, Pocket Casts, SD Maid

Multi-platform: Home Assistant, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin, Kodi, Samba, Firefox

Honorable mentions that don't have the best UX but are still hugely appreciated for existing: Joplin, QGIS

[–] Starburn 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

QGIS isn't that bad really. Some parts are more intuitive than ArcPro.

[–] dantheclamman 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't say it was bad. Just that the UX isn't great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Qgis gets a huge bump for not sucking you into the esri gravity well too

[–] dantheclamman 1 points 1 year ago

Which is why it is preferable to Arc despite its quirks :D

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