Ask Lemmy

Easy - VLC

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.

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

VLC

7-Zip

Steam

FireFox

Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.

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.

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

GIMP 10+ years for sure.

Winamp. It really whips the llama’s ass. (Edit fixed)

• 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

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

Many. The oldest and most popular ones are maybe

vi
bash
putty
Firefox
Notepad++
Irfanview
Vlc
OBS

>= 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

Is it stupid to say Linux

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.

VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio

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

Only ten years?

KDE, better then ever.

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.

VLC

Age of Empires 2, my true love xoxoxo

vim mutt tmux curl bash ksh WindowMaker Firefox OpenBSD Debian Krita Inkscape ffmpeg VLC git

Linux.

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

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)

SSH.

Darkstone (1999) - Good game for a Diablo clone.

Debian-flavored Linux - My only complaints are hardware compatibility-related, and that is primarily because Nvidia and Intel both suck Microsoft's floppy disk.

Krita, Gimp, Blender - Never needed another art program. Adobe can eat my paintbrush.

LibreOffice - I would literally have this over MSOffice any and every day of the week.

VLC - It just frickin' works. And it's good at its job. It plays anything!

Well I haven't been using Newpipe for ten years... Maybe Skyrim...no, I haven't played that in years... Well it seems my list is gonna be short:

VLC
GIMP
7zip

VLC, notepad++

7-Zip, Steam, Firefox

• Firefox (now using Waterfox), I started using when it was still Mosaic and no idea it would one day become Mozilla Firefox..
• LibreOffice.
• In a couple years, maybe three, I'll be on Mint for 10 years and, yep, I do like it. And I certainly love many GNU apps that came with my distro: they're lightweight, focused and so incredibly useful <3
• I used to love Mac OS (previous to Linux, since the early 80s I had been an Apple user) and many small third party apps. But I moved away from Apple and have no desire to go back.

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

WinRAR. And I paid for it.

Steam

Firefox

VLC

Winamp

Notepad++

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!

AntennaPod on my android. An open source podcast player with no ads that has all the features I need to enjoy podcasts.