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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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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't even heard of this and I don't use audible, but I know how popular audio books are these days, can you break down the benefits of it?

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks more consistent, has a simpler UI, has a series-feature that is actually useable and doesn't link to an embedded website for almost everything.
And it can be used as a podcast app as well.

Con is that you need to bring your own audio books. But you can download them from Audible and such with many programs that are just freely out there on GitHub.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Also it can do podcasts, and even ebooks (the ebook support is pretty rough, I don't recommend it yet, but the developer is updating at a crazy pace).