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.

  • Eager Eagle
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    301 year ago

    not sure why indexing speed is a factor - it doesn’t require your attention and Jellyfin only needs to index things once, doesn’t it?

    • RBG
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      81 year ago

      Yeah, I kind of understand one wants to hit the ground running after installing but still. Let it do its thing over night and you should be good?