Only ten years?
KDE, better then ever.
Definitely MediaMonkey, though I’ve had it for 16 years instead of 10 after paying $40 for a lifetime license. The license format changed once and I’ve misplaced my key a couple of times, but their support has always been great at getting me back on track.
WinRAR. And I paid for it.
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.
vim mutt tmux curl bash ksh WindowMaker Firefox OpenBSD Debian Krita Inkscape ffmpeg VLC git
VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio
Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control
VLC
7-Zip
Steam
FireFox
Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.
VLC…
Legen (wait for it)… dary.
- winrar
- truecrypt
there’s probably more, but most of it is pretty common these days or has already been mentioned.
It’s been a while since I’ve used TrueCrypt because I switched over to Linux and used Luks. But I thought everyone had moved to Vera Crypt. Is that no longer the case? Just curious, Since I haven’t read much about that world for many years.
I have ancient crypts and I’m too lazy to move them.
I figure at some point they’ll be even more secure because nobody will be able to run the software as the hardware ages out.
VLC, IDM, Krita, Sharex
Any terminal emulator, but I prefer the suckless terminal. After that I guess zsh and neovim.
I’ve been using this app on my android forever called J4T it’s a 4 track recorder. Love it. Might not count but I think it does.
Not quite 10 years but will be by 2029:
- Blender - idc what anyone says about it. It’s the most user friendly that it’s ever been
Steam
Firefox
VLC
Winamp
Notepad++
I thought Winamp was no more? Used to love it way back.
Most people have their favorite old version of Winamp that they run.
I used Winamp for a very long time myself, but ended up giving it up when I gave up Windows. (yes, I know you can run it under Wine, but I also have Qmmp now)
It literally never went away. People just don’t usually listen to files on their own device anymore. But it’s been whipping llama ass this whole time.
Love the motto. I did look around a bit and it seems that the was some controversy a few years ago with them. Some headlines suggesting development finished. Are you just using a couple of years old build and it’s not breaking, or are there actual updates still?
Just an old version. It doesn’t auto update and I think the only versions actively developed today are the iOS and Android apps. Not even sure where you download the desktop version on their website since it’s vastly different now.
that one [piece of] software that you are using
Zero-k, the successor to the Total Annihilation game from 1998.
I used emacs today, in bash, with a host of other commands like xargs and sort. None of it was fucking Systemd related, like systemctl, nor raging because network manager took a nap on my server, so it was a great day.
>= 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 know and will very, very likely still use in 10 years
- Rust
- Guix
- Gollum wiki
- Gemini protocol
