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.

  • @Z4rKEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I’m a little curious what you replaced Photoshop with :)

      • @ohlaph
        1•1 year ago

        Second krita vote. It’s pretty good.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Kudos to everyone who knows how to use gimp, but for the life of me, I think the interface is a disaster and anyone who thinks it is good for a new user is kidding themselves

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        ¿Does Gimp on Windows finally use the same interface as the Linux version? But either way while I have learned to use Gimp over time and appreciate it the interface certainly has rough edges. For me that’s particularly noticeable when it comes to handling different layers and controlling which part of the interface has focus.

        Some functionality is also quite hidden and exploring the interface isn’t so useful for finding it, often I found myself prompting a search engine instead. But I can also see that Gimp is a complex program with a ton of functionality and it’s very hard to make the interface intuitive for every type of user at once.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Hahah! This was done on my phone, actually, with an app called Sketchbook. Not FOSS, I don’t believe, but to the other commenters point I typically do photo manipulation with GIMP and actually vastly prefer it to Photoshop. Probably has something to do with the fact that I learned on GIMP instead of PS, but I really do like it better.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      I unironically cannot use Photoshop. I grew up with GIMP and the Photoshop UI is completely alien and confusing for me, so I have no choice but to retreat into the safe warm UI of GIMP.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      2 or 3 programs.

      Krita is great for creation. Darktable is the equive of lightroom and best for filtering photos etc. It really is great.

      Gimp is a great tool. But has issues with colour depth. Takes some practice but well worth it for the correct projects.

      Anything else you want to do. You will find simple command line tools to do it.

      Like most you may find this daunting. But remember Unix plus OS has a very different philosopy to most commercial development houses. Where companies like Photoshop see any other software as competition that they must absorb costomers from. So anything they cannot do they try to replace. Constantly increasing the scope of there product.

      Unix tend to have a right tool for the job attitude. This allows OS developer who are donating there own time. To concentrate on doing the stuff they are good at very well.

      There is little motive to destroy competition. If another group dose something better. Use them.