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Over 20 years, easy. I started my PC life as a Mac user, switched to Windows for gaming, then switched to Linux for freedom. VLC has followed me the whole way and been a must-install since the first time I used it.
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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.
I'm loving their commitment to Proton, making gaming on Linux better than ever.
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The enshittification of Steam would really sting and significantly harm PC gaming as a whole.
As GabeN ages, I really worry about the day when he finally hands control of that company over, because as soon as ROI becomes their primary objective, it’s game over.
Prioritizing the experience and quality of the platform over profit maximization has actually earned them more money in the long run as they’ve slowly snowballed over all their competitors. I really hope the new stewards understand this and genuinely love gaming as a whole as it seems a lot of decision-makers at Valve currently do.
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- vlc
- vim
- tmux
- neomutt
- FreeBSD / Linux
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Firefox
- KDE's Dolphin
- SwayWM
- pass
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VLC
7-Zip
Steam
FireFox
Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.
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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.
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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)
Factorio
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!
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Only ten years?
KDE, better then ever.
VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio
Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that's beyond their control
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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.
Linux.
I like Paint.NET. It's easy to use for simple image edits.
Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird, vi/vim, VLC, Mutt (only occasionally), Irssi
>= 33 years
- Unix
- C
- the shell and commands like cd, ls, find, xarg, cp, mv, ln, df, du
>= 32 years
- vi/vim
- LaTeX
- tar
>= 28 years
- Emacs
- awk, bash
- C++
- Linux
>= 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 now and will very, very likely still use in 10 years
- Rust
- Guix
- Gollum wiki
- Gemini protocol
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SSH.
- 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
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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.
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Linux, vim, zfs
7-Zip, Steam, Firefox
WinAMP
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.
the crazy thing is, ircv3 is being worked on. might already have been released. don't care enough to look. for a dying medium!
vim mutt tmux curl bash ksh WindowMaker Firefox OpenBSD Debian Krita Inkscape ffmpeg VLC git
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VLC, notepad++
I have no fucking clue why this thing is still running. Why do we even make new gpus?
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Many. The oldest and most popular ones are maybe
vi
bash
putty
Firefox
Notepad++
Irfanview
Vlc
OBS
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Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3
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.
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KDE.
It's the only one I have used more than 10 years and loved the entire time. Everything else has been replaced, not loved or not used for 10 years.
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.
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