Ask Lemmy

Easy - VLC

VLC maybe 20 years. How long has it even been around?

GIMP 10+ years for sure.

Steam? Though I'm not sure I'm loving it... 22 years now... But it worked back then, it still works now, and it hasn't lost itself to enshitification. It even followed me to linux.

Factorio

Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It's there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

VLC

7-Zip

Steam

FireFox

Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.

I like Paint.NET. It's easy to use for simple image edits.

Is it stupid to say Linux

• vlc
• vim
• tmux
• neomutt
• FreeBSD / Linux
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Firefox
• KDE's Dolphin
• SwayWM
• pass

WinAMP

KiCAD for 10 years now. Leaps and bounds better than then!

Steam 15 years or so

VLC since windows XP

Firefox since then also

Arduino for quick things for 12 years about

Discord since 2016 (and now looking to change)

• 7zip
• Firefox
• LibreOffice
• Various Linux distros, but mostly Ubuntu variants and Raspbian
• Cura
• OpenVPN
• Blender
• Gimp
• Windows - sorry everyone, it just works, but I stopped at 10.
• VLC
• Virtual Clone Drive

Only ten years?

KDE, better then ever.

Age of Empires 1 is old enough, but does one "use" it?

It's got a unique co-op feature where you actally control the same people and can divide tasks (not like other RTS where you can play in a team but still need to do everything yourself, with any resource sharing being a manual (or even taxed) action in a menu somewhere), so my gf and I are sticking with this game. I think it's the only game we've been playing consistently for our 10 years together. Crap, did I say playing? I meant using! It's a relationship tool. Try it today! xD

VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio

Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that's beyond their control

For some 20 years VLC has been installed on my computers though streaming has made it less used than before.

Steam: not been enshittified yet. Also one of the great forces behind Linux gaming being more mainstream.

Does the Linux kernel count? It's been 12 years since I tilted at a faulty network driver on windows 7 and just uninstalled it and did not look back. There has been many different distributions since (now I use arch btw) but the kernel is the same.

Plex+Sonarr+Radarr. Netflix raising subscription rates again? Yarrr, not my concern. Studios locking away their content behind exclusivity agreements? Yarrr. "This program is not available in your country"? YARRR!

Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3

mIRC (or for you guys, any IRC client). Not as vibrent as in the old days and some missing functions in comparison to modern clients such as Discord and many more.

Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird, vi/vim, VLC, Mutt (only occasionally), Irssi

WinRAR. And I paid for it.

Winamp. It really kicks the llama’s ass.

VLC, notepad++

VLC

InkScape.

I don't fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don't. I love fiddling with vectors.

>= 33 years

• Unix
• C

>= 32 years

• vi/vim
• LaTeX
• tar

>= 28 years

• Emacs
• awk, bash
• C++

>= 26 years

• Python & Numerical Python
• screen and tmux
• rsync
• ssh
• InkScape

>= 20 years

• git
• literate programming tools

>= 17 years

• Thunderbird & forks
• Debian & Ubuntu
• GNOME

>= 15 years

• MeeGo, Maemo, Sailfish & siblings
• Lisps (Clojure, Guile, Racket)

>= 11 years

• tiling WMs (i3)
• Arch (as second system)

what I use know and will very, very likely still use in 10 years

• Rust
• Guix
• Gollum wiki
• Gemini protocol

Kind of niche but Guitar Pro. Not sure what the newer versions are like but the one I have is great for composing and arrangement.

Krita (a digital painting and Photoshop alternative). I've been enjoying using it for probably 10 years now, and it's only continued to steadily improve. Fantastic program.

I have no fucking clue why this thing is still running. Why do we even make new gpus?

Blender.

10 years ago it was scarcely believable that a FOSS package for such a niche purpose could be so fucking good. And it got better in the meantime. If Blender had existed when I was a kid I would have probably spent every waking hour creating stuff with it. As an adult, I get limited time to do that, but I appreciate that it exists.

termux

Linux, vim, zfs

Many. The oldest and most popular ones are maybe

vi
bash
putty
Firefox
Notepad++
Irfanview
Vlc
OBS

WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP

It really whips the llama's ass

7-Zip, Steam, Firefox

Steam

Firefox

VLC

Winamp

Age of Empires 2, my true love xoxoxo

Sumatra PDF Reader is no-frills and distraction free. Even on my ancient PC, it's fast as heck. I have rather rudely installed it on other people's PCs, because their slow all-singing all-dancing PDF readers drove me up the wall.

RawTherapee converts "RAW" files from digital cameras to friendlier image formats, and pretty often RawTherapee's edit is all I need. It's feature packed, it can do film simulations, image de-noising, tone-mapping, and now it has the ability to do some local adjustments, too. I have several "RAW" converters, including a commercial one, but I keep coming back to RawTherapee as the mainstay, the most productive for me.

I've got foobar2000 set up as a pretty plain-looking, non-distracting music player. It's got great library features, it has a wildly customizable interface, it's got a plugin architecture to extend its abilities in many ways. It has stayed on my PC for years because of its quiet competence, always serving without demanding my time or attention.

I used to keep my password file and other confidential stuff inside a TrueCrypt virtual volume. Now I use the successor, VeraCrypt. Both have always worked flawlessly; in fact, TrueCrypt is way smaller and I'm not aware of any security issues with it, it's just not actively developed anymore.