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Ask HN: What is your favorite unpopular software?

• enkiv2 12y ago
  mencoder & sox -- I find it a lot easier to manipulate audio and video from the command line (and where a lot of people do that with ffmpeg instead of mencoder, I prefer mencoder because the option set matches mplayer so well).
• brudgers 12y ago
  Windows.
  • 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y ago
    Windows ME?
    • ksk 12y ago
      You can, if you want to..
  • swah 12y ago
    Yes, this! The graphical interaction is so much better than OSX and Linux IMO. But its not Unix, so everything is hard for developing.
• nickysielicki 12y ago
  This thread is worrying me. I cannot come up with any unpopular piece of software that I really like. It makes me wonder how much influence the communities around me have. I guess if I had to say anything, it would be SQL. People are keen to ditch SQL statements for ORM and I don't like that. I guess openBSD falls into this camp to an extent.
• jakeogh 12y ago
  surf+tabbed/dmenu http://surf.suckless.org/ http://surf.suckless.org/ portage has a "savedconfig" USE flag to handle .h config: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/savedconfig.eclass/ https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/savedconfig.ec...
• andicanada 12y ago
  VIM . A lot of people around me are into Sublime, Atom, or even Eclipse depending on the project. But straight up vim for most coding tasks is my "unpopular" software that is my favourite (and gets the job done quickly :) )