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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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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  1. XBMC forked off into Plex. Plex introduced a far better UI.
  2. XBMC became Kodi. Kodi learned from Plex.
  3. Jellyfin came along and learned from both of them.

So I don't think you can really criticise Plex too much here. They were perhaps getting complacent and they've definitely been shown up, but they were an important step to where we are now.

[–] ArdMacha@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jellyfin was a fork of Emby, previously Media Browser, a plug in for Windows Media Center.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

Ahh, so that is why it is written .NET

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