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What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cujo@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] ovay@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

Hey what about Kodi?

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[-] FordPrefect@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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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[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Godbolt. Thank whatever cosmic great fortune sent goldbolt.

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[-] Jayb151@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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?

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[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

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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[-] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

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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[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 9 points 2 years 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.

[-] 257m@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 9 points 2 years ago

gimp

[-] cujo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Listen, I love GIMP. I would never try to argue that the UI/UX is better than alternatives. There's a reason it's not the defacto tool to use in its industry, and it's not the name.

That said, if you take the time to learn GIMP, it's delightful. I personally like using GIMP more than, say, Photoshop, but I also learned photo manipulation on GIMP, and didn't touch Photoshop until well after. GIMP's UX leaves a lot to be desired for a newcomer to the software.

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