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I like Paint.NET. It's easy to use for simple image edits.

Factorio

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)

Age of Empires 1 is old enough, but does one "use" it?

It's got a unique co-op feature where you actally control the same people and can divide tasks (not like other RTS where you can play in a team but still need to do everything yourself, with any resource sharing being a manual (or even taxed) action in a menu somewhere), so my gf and I are sticking with this game. I think it's the only game we've been playing consistently for our 10 years together. Crap, did I say playing? I meant using! It's a relationship tool. Try it today! xD

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.

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.

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

GIMP 10+ years for sure.

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!

termux

There are plenty of answers in this thread that lists applications that have kept being updated over the years, which I don't know if it is a valid answer, it depends on the definition of the question, and how you interpret the software of Theseus.

I am going to be semi pedantic, no binary updates but config updates and compabillity layers are ok.

I still play Unreal Tournament 2004, I have three copies, one on CD, one on Steam and one on GOG, it is an awesome game, that even has an official native Linux version with an installer on the CD.

It is fantastically fun, well balanced and just amazing.

You have to edit the config files to support modern resolutions, and make it connect to the community master server, but that is a one time change and then you can just start blasting.

The game is available on Archive.org.

Linux, vim, zfs

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.

Kind of niche but Guitar Pro. Not sure what the newer versions are like but the one I have is great for composing and arrangement.

I don't think any software I regularly used has changed since 2016( lemmy being an obvious exception. Rip reddit). Maybe home assistant. Not sure when that started. Most used: Obviously gnu+Linux+gnome. Gimp, beersmith, sabnzdb, deluge, plex. Vscode, Firefox. I'm sure many others

Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3

WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP

It really whips the llama's ass

Linux.

Is it stupid to say Linux

SSH.

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

I have a manjaro install that old. Im holding out to see what they do with themselves before I switch that laptop to something else

Blender3D. My first use of Blender was... I think... Version 2.49b. The UI was... Quite something back then.

Zsnes

Also Winrar

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.

7-Zip, Steam, Firefox

I wish my answer was wobbly windows. But I'll go with Emacs and eclipse.

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.