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Standalone software keeps working more or less forever regardless of the company. I still use Jasc Paint Shop Pro X from something like 15 years ago as my image

Standalone software keeps working more or less forever regardless of the company. I still use Jasc Paint Shop Pro X from something like 15 years ago as my image editing software. It might not be as good as more modern software, but I know how to use it and I don’t need to retrain on something new, which means I can be very fast with whatever I need to do. Subscription-based software including updates is a downside as far as I’m concerned. Especially when they phone home and realize you’re not on the latest version and refused to work until you update. I don’t generally want to update. Stability and muscle memory is way too underrated in the tech world.

hermitcrab 4y ago
>Standalone software keeps working more or less forever regardless of the company. That may be true for Windows, but it isn't true for Mac (unless you never upgrade your computer). I have been writing and supporting the same piece of commercial software since 2005 on Windws and Mac. v1 of my software probably still works on Windows 11. Not a chance on Mac (it has gone PowerPc -> Intel -> Arm in that time!).
- urthor 4y ago
  This is one of the joys of command line tools. They almost never stop working on you, and are far easier to maintain cross platform. Using the same thing on Mac at work and Linux at home is a joy. Increasingly, I actively try to use the command line approach to all my software. Not because it's better (often it... isn't. FFmpeg is actually remarkably annoying for example), but it's bloody reliable.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    This is one of the joys of command line tools using fossilized UNIX APIs, that is.