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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cujo@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

KDE is better than Windows

~~Audible~~ Audacity is more audio programme than most people need

KdenLive is more video editor than most people need

Kritta is more art programme than most people need

There are edge cases where there are professional programmes that might be better but unless you are a professional you do not need them and even semi-pros would likely be better served by those three

[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows just rips off every plasma feature at this point, even kde devs make fun of it

[-] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Audible is more audio programme than most people need

Did you mean Audacity?

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 45 points 1 year ago

You've got the audiobook to correct him? Unbelievable....

[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Errr... yes. Good catch

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Agreed with everything. As a programmer, I use the IntelliJ suite (mainly PHPStorm, WebStorm, GoLand, RubyMine, PyCharm, and IDEA), which is basically industry standard in most companies (except those fuckers who still use Eclipse or NetBeans).

[-] sagethesagesage@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Well, those aren't FOSS, but I agree that they're really good at what they do.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Of course, I referred to the part that FOSS are enough for hobbyists amd beginners.

[-] 257m@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

They are used a lot but I don't think they could be called industry standard. Tons of people run vim, emacs and such aswell the occasional vendor provided IDE. Probably like 60% of software engineers run IntelliJ.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I am yet to find a job where a single person uses Vi(m) or Emacs. And I've been to some big companies.

[-] 257m@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Perhaps nobody says they use it out loud although knowing vim users (and being one myself) they tend to be very willing to share how bad a mouse is for productivity while programming and how using vim is the ultimate solution. As for emacs I only ever have seen greybeards use it and it dosen't to have had much of a revival with the newer generations.

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