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.

  • PracticalParrot
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    1 year ago

    There must be something wrong with your Jellyfin install. Mine has been comfortably sat at 1GB RAM after what is currently about 2 weeks uptime. Sometimes I don’t restart it for months on end. Never really goes above that. I only ever restart it in cases of extended power failure (I’m lucky enough to experience some power cuts that last 2-3 hours at times)

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      1 year ago

      This is what literally every jellyfin user and forum has told me. So far it’s been completely unfixable.

      Plex support actually gives me useful responses.

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        1 year ago

        Sorry to hear that man. At least your Plex server works, so that’s something.