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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[–] ovay@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey what about Kodi?

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[–] FordPrefect@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The fact that no one in these comments, seems to have had a really decent FOSS IDE \ engine to recommend for 3D game development, makes me sad.

Like, Unreal is pretty great, but it's not FOSS (& won't run on any of my machines anyway).

Is there anything FOSS that really streamlines 3D game development?
(I want to say Vulkan but I feel like that's some sort of perennial "gotcha!" joke, at this point?)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've no firsthand knowledge about it, but I've been hearing a lot of good stuff about Godot ever since Unity shit the bed

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use Gimp and Krita, ShareX also with the complementary Extension, integrated with FileCoffee, old but gold VLC media player, PicView image viewer/editor (IMO best alternative to IrfanView), ProtonVPN (yes, it's OpenSource), Crow Translate, FreeTube, Portmaster, Cherry Tree editor, apart of some games (The Dark Mod, Armagetron Advanced, Scorched 3D, and some more)

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[–] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Are we allowed FOSS alternatives to common FOSS apps lol? In which case, I'm saying NeoStore > F-Droid.

Also, separately, Zotero > all commercial reference manages and increasingly over PDF readers too.

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[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don't 100% understand LPPL, but I believe it qualifies under open source, but regardless if it's open source or not, LaTeX > Word and I will die on this hill.

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[–] 257m@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Feeder, a RSS reader for Android. It has great UI, is fast at finding and parsing .xml from a link and has a comfortable reading experience. It has basicslly replaced social media for me besides the fediverse. The only thing I wish it had was more customizability. Being able to install Nord theme on it would be great.

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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 9 points 1 year ago

Home assistant vs Homeseer.

Home seer will cost you 300-500$.

It's add-ons and extensions are all paid.

Home assistant is literally better in every way possible.

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Let's be honest though, the Android app for jellyfin is so so buggy. My partner can't even use it because there are certain orders of starting a video, casting, closing the app, reopening to starting subtitles, recasting, just to get it working

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