is there any old (by which i mean either superseded by a newer version or officially discontinued) software that you still use out of choice? not because you can't afford/your computer can't run anything newer, but genuinely because you want to use it. and if so, what, and why?
(games don't count)
i still use xp.
the reasons are obvious.
oldversions.com
MY BAD! It is http://www.oldversion.com/
Office 2003, Because 07 is a silly piece of shit.
XMMS. Because it fits my needs almost perfectly and Linux distributions (Gentoo, Debian) seem to abandon it.
Yes, I know there is Audacious. But their devs say they don't want audacious to be an XMMS-replacement. It's missing some (for me) important options. It does not save some settings. Crashing all the time when adding a song to a playlist doesn't help either.
As badly maintained as XMMS may be, for me it's the best media player out there. It's configurable and it just fucking works.
XP sp 1
winget downloader
I still use the Amiga mail client under an emulator because I'm yet to find one anywhere near as good.
Geoworks baby!
PSP 7, but I have no idea why.
Also a bunch of free/ad/shitware where the earlier versions were less bloaty or naggy.