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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I used xbmc back when it was a Mc for xb haha kodi now seems more trouble than it’s worth
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I couldn’t tell you now, it was a long time ago I fiddled with it. I just moved on to other solutions lol
Yup. I even pay for YouTube TV but if something I want to watch is available over ATSC, I switch to my Kodi tvheadend HTSP client on Chromecast (I have a pcie tuner) because the UI doesn’t make me stabby.
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Once you grok tvh’s architecture, it’s incredibly versatile. I have a TV sound stream profile so I can listen to local news (not Sinclair thank God) in the car over icecast, or have home assistant cue it up on a Google Home. A great, underrated project. And I can share an antenna among 3 TVs without worrying about RF amplification!
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Personally, I prefer Stremio (also FOSS)
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You can self host it: https://hub.docker.com/r/stremio/server
I really want to like Kodi, but somehow I’ve always struggled with its UI. I can’t seem to logically find the options I’m looking for (in the first place I look.)