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.

  • cujoOP
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    1 year ago

    You might want to check and see what ports you do or don’t have open to your local network. I know I had to open port 1900 on UDP to connect from the clients in the house.

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      1 year ago

      This is most likely the issue. I can’t help if you are on windows but on Linux you may want to google iptables, ufw, or firewalld.