1085
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
637 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 10 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Last time I tried blender for video editing, the experience wasn't great. Has it changed significantly in the last couple of years?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Yes. 100%

    No clue about video editing though.

    Also, why the FUCK would you use Blender as a video ed nxitor. That is one of the last things you use Blender for.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    why the FUCK would you use Blender as a video ed nxitor. That is one of the last things you use Blender for.

    Do you have recommended alternatives? I like it using Blender for video editing because I can automate any arbitrary repetitive task with a Python script.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I've tried exactly once (given that I know blender anyway and no video editor), and ran into audio sync issues at export that didn't happen when playing the timeline from blender. There were some mentions of the issues on forums, but no purported solution worked.

    The gist of it is that Blender is not a video editor, but a highly capable 3d kitchen sink containing so many features that, in combination, mean that you can use it to edit videos, outranked in its own area of expertise only by Houdini. There was never a real push to make it particularly good at video editing, and unlike in other areas it didn't happen by accident, either (Blender is e.g. arguably the best 2d vector editor ever since it got grease pencil).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yes! the video sequencer has received dramatic improvements over the past years. It now shuffles or overwrites timeline content when you move a strip over another (based on a user setting), it transform-snaps to strip bounds and other elements, it auto-generates proxies so you never have to touch anything, it plays in realtime... for a full overview of improvements see the release notes : https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent