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.

    • AureumTempus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Which is funny, because Helix is my main text editor. I love it, but my issue with Helix is that despite bringing in LSP, tree-sitters and a bunch of other stuff, they shouldn’t have left out on scripting. So, any addition to Helix is very much opinionated, and owner-restricted. If I want a plugin like, let’s say git integration, or note-taking, it would be at the mercy of the contributors. Now, technically, I can create a fork, but it isn’t the most ideal solution, when I am at the mercy of having to use package managers, especially in NixOS and GuilleSD. But that is not to deny how good it feels to use a TOML file, as opposed to maintaining lines of code. Another issue is that it does not respect system theme, but there’s a PR already out there, I believe.

      What I love about Kakoune is the core-utils integration and shell-first approach. Tabs don’t exist, you use a terminal multiplexer, which, in a way, reduces redundancy. Also, since Kakoune has the client-server architecture, it inter-ops well with tmux. Not only that, it respects and maintains terminal theme consistency (both in light and dark mode). The only place Kakoune is lacking is that it requires a bunch of plugins, LSP, tree-sitters and DAPs must be a core part of the app, and that’s it, it guess?

      Also, thank you for your contribution to Lemmy :-).