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.
2 or 3 programs.
Krita is great for creation. Darktable is the equive of lightroom and best for filtering photos etc. It really is great.
Gimp is a great tool. But has issues with colour depth. Takes some practice but well worth it for the correct projects.
Anything else you want to do. You will find simple command line tools to do it.
Like most you may find this daunting. But remember Unix plus OS has a very different philosopy to most commercial development houses. Where companies like Photoshop see any other software as competition that they must absorb costomers from. So anything they cannot do they try to replace. Constantly increasing the scope of there product.
Unix tend to have a right tool for the job attitude. This allows OS developer who are donating there own time. To concentrate on doing the stuff they are good at very well.
There is little motive to destroy competition. If another group dose something better. Use them.