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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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 8 points 1 year ago

Home assistant vs Homeseer.

Home seer will cost you 300-500$.

It's add-ons and extensions are all paid.

Home assistant is literally better in every way possible.

[–] shmooomaru@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't wait until 10.9 comes out next year. Intro skipper is the killer missing feature.

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[–] mfat@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use Shotcut instead of Premiere Pro for work. It's much lighter and simpler.

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[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Plex, running locally, on my server: “You should add a server!”

Plex, running locally, on my server: “Claim 10.0.0.10!”

Plex, running locally, on my server, after claiming my server: “You should add a server!”

[–] neytjs@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pulsar is better than VS Code for JavaScript.

https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar

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[–] tsuica@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jellyfin would be great if only you could change subtitle colors. With HDR content, having pure white subtitles is eye-scorching.

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