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.
Linux Mint, or any Linux distro, over Windows.
Yes, I know it’s a “beginner” Linux distro, but I just need it to work and be reliable. I need to be able to get in and troubleshoot my servers, not my desktop or laptop. Not many other distros do that out of the box especially with the amount of support Mint has.