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What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
(sh.itjust.works)
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.
Man, I've been running Plex for about a decade without a ton of issues. I tried jellyfin, and I can't get video to play anywhere that's not the PC that's running it. What am I doing wrong?
You mean the extremely commercialized Plex? Nah.
You're better off going with Emby. It actually works, and isn't commercialized to shit like Plex.
Seconded. I tried Plex, Emby and Jellyfin and found Emby was the sweetshop between GUI niceness and not swamped with shit features I don't want or need. Jellyfish while being great and free, does not have the same UI polish as Emby, so I stumped up for a lifetime sub.
You might want to check and see what ports you do or don't have open to your local network. I know I had to open port 1900 on UDP to connect from the clients in the house.
This is most likely the issue. I can’t help if you are on windows but on Linux you may want to google iptables, ufw, or firewalld.
There's a setting to allow remote viewing