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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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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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[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I agree. Nautilus could be better. But to compare it with Finder in MacOS, which straight up hides the root file system ("a feature" of course), you cannot mount sftp/ssh etc, or even let's you cut and paste files, not to mention the crappy traversal of folders. The worst part of gnome (if you can call the file manager a part of gnome) is still miles better than the commercial counterpart.