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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

does anyone know if there's a free alternative in Visual Studio to PHPTools? I refuse to believe the only way to debug PHP in visual studio is a paid license extension

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[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Depends on what is counterpart.

Flameshot - better than sbipping tool.
QBittorrent - better than uTorrent

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I want jellyfin, but the number of devices I'd have to manually setup around my house, tvs etc, is daunting and terrifying.

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[-] tentaclius@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I play a lot lately with SuperCollider (sound design + algorithmic composition software) and I love it. I don't even think there is a commercial alternative.

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[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GNOME Document Scanner is surprisingly working smoothly out-of-the-box (with Brother printer at least)

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