VLC maybe 20 years. How long has it even been around?
GIMP 10+ years for sure.
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!
Yup. Got my lifetime PlexPass on sale like a decade ago, and it has easily paid for itself a hundred times over. I also run Jellyfin because I prefer the UI, but the security vulnerabilities (and lack of a native TV app on my mother-in-law’s TV) mean it isn’t really suitable for external access. So it’s Plex for the friends and family, and Jellyfin for me. Luckily, they both happily run side-by-side.
Linux.
SSH.
Linux, vim, zfs
Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3
I like Paint.NET. It’s easy to use for simple image edits.
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!
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.
+1 for Blender, as an animation professional I can say it changed the landscape
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.
WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP
It really whips the llama’s ass
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.
