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.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    13·
    10 months ago

    Imagine being so free of Win11 problems, you find Server 2022 annoying…

    I think you tried DC a couple years ago. But also, what all is there in TC, that you find irreplaceable for you?

    • Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      Haha, we have only a handful of PCs that upgraded to Win11 so far. I think it’s just as bad as Win10, maybe better than Win10 18H2 and earlier apart from the UI.

      For totalcmd: Viewer than can easily search an 8GB binary file at the speed of the disk, switched seamlessly between UTF-16, ASCII, HEX. The whole Search feature now integrated with Everything. Multi-Rename with Regex and or renumbering. Treeview that can be enabled or disabled for one or both panes. Copy/Move queue with speed limiter and pause. Tab management for sorting and removing duplicates. History of most frequently used directories. Integrated wget (via the FTP-URL button). Fast image gallery view. That’s what comes to mind that didn’t work or not as well with DC.

      Maybe also work in DC: Plugins for NTFS streams, WebDAV (windows default implementation sucks donkey balls), SCP. I even used it for burning CDs back under XP.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        14·
        10 months ago

        The latest news about Win11 integrating a bunch of AI garbage is horrifying me, whether it can be debloated away or not. I am just thinking if I could not need Windows after 10 EOLs in 2 years from now.

        Everything integration sounds sick. I can only think you need to try DC with plugins to see if it works in free time, because I cannot guarantee. But I have seen DC develop over the years, since it was like in 0.3 beta, and now maybe it can work 1:1.