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)
Easy - VLC
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.
mpv is superior imo, especially on Linux.
VLC for me too. What a great program it is, never a single problem.
Factorio
I like Paint.NET. It’s easy to use for simple image edits.
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.
Is it user friendly?
Isn’t vi designed to be navigate with a keyboard that looked like this? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
Arrow keys were on HJKL.
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.
making gaming on Linux better than ever
Latest reports have linux up to 5%, almost double from 6 months ago
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.
Your comment made me realize that when steam finally does succumb to enshittification. All the other pc gaming launchers are going to blame us pc gamers for supporting steam all these years and not using their shitty ass products. Hopefully it’s no time soon
If I had a gripe to share it’d be (the gambling) and Community features feeling stuck in 2008.
VLC
7-Zip
Steam
FireFox
Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.
VLC…
Legen (wait for it)… dary.
- vlc
- vim
- tmux
- neomutt
- FreeBSD / Linux
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Firefox
- KDE’s Dolphin
- SwayWM
- pass
I’m happy with keepass, but I’ve always been curious about pass.
Does the browser extension work well? Is there a good solution for using it on android?
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!
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!
Linux, vim, zfs
Only ten years?
KDE, better then ever.
Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird, vi/vim, VLC, Mutt (only occasionally), Irssi
