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.

  • @olafurp
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    28 months ago

    looked it up, you’re right. The payment is for the codec out itself which is normally done by GPU companies and often can be downloaded for free.

    My bad for not reading text on a window from Windows with a “$ please”.

    • Polar
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      78 months ago

      So you admit you didn’t read it, but then you happily go around spreading misinformation?

      Why do you guys do that?

      • @olafurp
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        48 months ago

        You can still pay 1$ for playing a codec in WMP. It’s still 90% correct.

      • @Old_Dude
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        28 months ago

        People have been asking this same question since the existence of the internet.