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What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
(sh.itjust.works)
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.
To be fair, I am not a photographer, nearly all my work is digital. I haven't used Gimp in at least a decade, but it was a puddle compared to the ocean of Photoshop when I did use it. I'm sure it's come a long way, but I've yet to see any reason it would be superior to Photoshop in any way.
Gimp certainly isn't better as Photoshop, i didn't say this, but it's the best after Photoshop and it's free. Krita isthe best in it's category, paint editor at professioinal level and also is FOSS, same with Blender, or Bforartist, also FOSS. As said, certainly not all FOSS is better as commercial apps, but also not all commercial apps are better than FOSS. Anyway, it is always the question whether it is worth paying for a commercial program that may have some more specific functions (or not) that are not needed anyway.