I recently switch to OnlyOffice for their UI/UX, and it's been brilliant. LibreOffice is a delight, though.
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.
It does not.
There's an explanation as to your ban on the post you linked. Mod makes it pretty clear it's because of your attitude towards the mod team in discussion of the use of "female" to refer to a woman, not because of your use of the word itself.
As everyone else was saying, you're leaving out context which makes it hard to be on your side in this. Leaving out important context like this just makes you look bad.
Everyone I know who uses an iPhone has had fried pins on the cable, not necessarily on their device. No one I know personally has had any issues with USB-C.
Though both experiences are anecdotal, I think we can take this away from our conversation at least: no cable design is perfect. Lol!
Consistent in frying pins and fraying cables.
You won't go wrong no matter which you end up choosing. I am personally a huge fan of the way OpenSUSE runs their ship, and some of the tools there are incredible.
YaST, for example, is a system management tool that provides the most extensive GUI for managing your system settings I've seen on a Linux distro period. Yes, all the settings can be managed from a terminal, but it's nice to have a graphical option sometimes.
Just play around with it since you've already got it installed, and see how you like it. There's a strong and friendly community surrounding the distro, so reach out if you've got any questions! You're also welcome to ask me. I may not have all the answers, but I'm pretty certain I can find someone who can help lol.
If you're married to Ubuntu, I'd suggest Xubuntu. It's Ubuntu using the XFCE desktop environment. XFCE can be a little... hard on the eyes by default, but it's super lightweight, very stable, and very customizable. It can be a very aesthetically pleasing DE with a little theming and an icon pack.
Outside of Ubuntu, Id suggest Linux Mint with XFCE. I know, I know, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu so why bother? Well, it's not Canonical. They've done some great things over the years, but recently... I just tend to stay away.
Personally, I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Love it, I'll never leave it. It's amazing. But without knowing your personal preferences or use cases, and with the info in your post, I have to recommend Xubuntu or Linux Mint XFCE. Also I agree with the other commenter, you'd benefit a lot from an upgrade to an SSD.
There is a place for graphically gorgeous distro's
As a current KDE user but extensive user of XFCE in the past, it may not come "pretty" out-of-the-box but XFCE can be a very aesthetically pleasing desktop environment. It can be configured just about every which way, and if I had to switch back to XFCE right now I could have things just about how I want them and be 100% as happy with my desktop as I am with KDE.
It's got defaults that just make sense, doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or the way we interact with our desktops, it's light and fast and reliable. It's associated default programs (Thunar, etc.) follow the same design paradigms and are a delight to use.
I Iove XFCE, and it will always have a special place in my heart.
Plus one for Linux Mint Cinnamon. Easily the best beginner distro, IMO. If you're technical enough to advance past Mint w/Cinnamon, you're probably technical enough to not need a service like the linked website.
It's still nice to see tools like this coming out, though, as a show of support for newcomers to the ecosystem.
I stand corrected!
They do not. State is $14.99.
I disagree, I think it's still perfectly reasonable to criticize Plex. Specifically for that complacency. Just because they were an important step to getting where we are does not mean they are above reproach.
Besides, I wasn't really criticizing Plex? All I said was that I prefer the UI/UX in Jellyfin, and that Jellyfin is still "Just Working" where Plex failed for reasons unknown. Plex isn't bad, I enjoyed using it while I did. I just found something FOSS to take it's place. ๐