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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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Librera Reader is a PDF // ebook reader for Android. It has a very smooth user experience and useful options. I used to have 5 or so different PDF readers installed and would pick and choose according to the task at hand but now I'm down to just 1.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Is Librera Reader FOSS? Their website provides no info about that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the Github and it's on F-droid so I assume it's open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll be checking it out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Download > Source code and releases on GitHub

It's GPL licensed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's GNU GPL v3 according to their page on f-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

+1, it's great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing it looks very good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using MJ PDF. [Play Store] | [GitLab]