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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.
There are so many reasons. You can peruse the BlenderArtists forum for details, these programs are so complex it's hard to condense everything into a single post, not to mention I'm just one user. I'd say Blender still has poorly designed gizmos (they're not necessary to do work, but still), lacking UV features (this is being remedied as we speak, Chris Blackbourn has been working on UV tools for the past few months), and its most compelling feature in my opinion (=geometry nodes) is very low-level and still not very accessible (the plan is to ship Blender with premade node groups in the future).
Krita has very well thought-out shortcuts that make painting a breeze. Picking layers, changing/tweaking brushes, it's all very simply presented, yet powerful. The performance is also unparalleled : Krita can handle immense canvases and that's a rare enough occurrence in FOSS to mention. I work regularly with 7k*14k images for print and it stays snappy and responsive. As long as you have the RAM for it (32GiB is enough for most situations).