What's a piece of software you still genuinely use daily that everyone insists is basically dead

[BrittleQuarry]

There always seems to be at least one program or tool that the wider internet has collectively declared obsolete years ago, yet somehow a stubborn pocket of people keep using it daily because it just still does the specific job better than whatever the trendy modern replacement is supposed to be. Curious what that piece of software is for other people here.

Mine would honestly be a fairly old school note taking app that most people moved away from years back in favor of flashier cloud synced alternatives, but the plain text file simplicity is exactly what keeps me loyal to it even now. No bloat, no subscription, just works exactly the same way it always has.

Feels like these loyalty cases usually come down to one specific workflow quirk the newer alternatives never quite replicate properly. Some small feature everyone else considers minor that turns out to actually be load bearing for how a particular person actually works day to day.

Would love to hear what people are still quietly running that has been declared dead by tech journalists a dozen times over the years. And more importantly why it has managed to survive in your own personal workflow specifically.
Bonus points for anyone still running something genuinely ancient that somehow refuses to actually break despite every reasonable expectation that it should have stopped working by now

[NoLimitsBen18]

Still using an old school RSS reader daily that most people assumed died with Google Reader over a decade ago. Turns out plenty of niche alternatives kept the format alive and it remains the single best way to actually track a lot of sites without algorithm interference

[Sega26]

Mine is an old media player everyone assumes died years ago. Still handles obscure file formats better than literally anything modern I have ever actually tried since switching would require. Small detail but it matters. Small detail but it stuck with me

[Oscar_86]

The plain text note taking loyalty makes total sense to me. There is something genuinely valuable about a format that will still be readable in twenty years regardless of whatever company folds or discontinues a product in the meantime. That part genuinely surprised me. Small detail but it stuck with me

[Jess30]

Genuinely surprised how many people in this thread are running decade plus old software daily and having it just work fine. Feels like good software from years ago was often just built to be more durable than what typically replaced it

[SerialScroller]

Mine is an ancient image editor that still somehow runs fine on modern hardware. Way lighter and faster than the current bloated alternatives for basic quick edits that do not need anything fancy

[Coder65]

Still using an old school password manager most people consider outdated at this point. The local only storage without any cloud sync is honestly a feature for me rather than the limitation everyone else seems to treat it as. Worth keeping in mind honestly

[Sharon79]

Mine is an ancient FTP client that somehow just keeps working despite every prediction it should have broken years ago. Simple, reliable, does exactly the one job it needs to do without unnecessary complications. Still think about it now

[Layla81]

Same energy here but with an old spreadsheet program most people consider hopelessly outdated now.

The macro system I built over literal years would take an insane amount of effort to properly rebuild in anything newer, so I just never bothered switching

[Nova]

The load bearing minor feature point is exactly right in my own experience. My holdout software has one specific keyboard shortcut combo that nothing else has ever properly replicated, and that alone has kept me loyal for years

[SpinState52]

Still running an old school forum style software for a small community I help moderate. Everyone insists Discord replaced this entirely, but searchability for old threads is honestly still miles better on the format we already have