this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
1073 points (97.8% liked)

Open Source

31366 readers
49 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Why do you guys do that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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