Ask HN: What is your favorite unpopular software?

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.

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 :) )

surf+tabbed/dmenu http://surf.suckless.org/

portage has a "savedconfig" USE flag to handle .h config: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/savedconfig.ec...

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).

Windows.