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)

Caustic 3 on my mobile.

I've still not found a better android DAW. (Anyone have suggestions? )

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

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!

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.

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

Haven't seen mentioned yet:

PDFgear, does all the things to PDFs and it's free.

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

Linux, vim, zfs

WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP

It really whips the llama's ass

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

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

GIMP 10+ years for sure.

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.

Zsnes

Also Winrar

Reaper (DAW)

DisplayFusion for monitor backgrounds. Bought a license like 15+ years ago and it's still getting updates 🕺

Linux.

I know it's a Google product! But I've been using the android Gboard keyboard on my phone for about as long as android phones have been a thing. The slide typing has always been great. I've tried many other keyboards because, y'know, Google, but I've not found any as good.

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

Scrivener

Sublime Text. Used it to write web a year or two before VS Code was released (2015). I never started with VS Code because of that and still use Sublime Text for anything that does not require an IDE.

XNview. This was a screen capture & basic editing tool I started using in like the Windows95 era. Yes, the latest couple of version of Windows also do this, but I've got the hotkeys memorized at this point.

I reckon I should point out that I'm transitioning to Linux, so I rarely use it anymore. But we had a helluva run together.

SSH.

Other than pc games of that vintage I don’t think there is a single piece of software I enjoy using these days, they all hog all the ram and fill your screen with login prompts and popups about how useless AI features can further ruin your day.

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.

7-Zip, Steam, Firefox