Tips & tricks

Unix-y Windows 3.x Windows 2k Windows 7 Mac OS OpenBSD Linux plan9/9front

Software for Unix, Linux, BSD, ...

Desktop environments/window managers

Email clients

File browser

File-sync

Gemini browser

Gopher browser

Image viewer

IRC

Media player

Music player

PDF viewer

RSS reader

Terminal emulator

Text editor

USENET client

Web browser

Linux

Limiting RAM and CPUs with the GRUB bootloader

MacOS

Headcrash's list of software for:

OpenBSD

Limiting RAM on OpenBSD

plan9

Limiting RAM and CPU in plan9

In plan9.ini

Windows 3.x

Windows 2K

Tekk's guide on how to survive with Windows 2K.

Windows 7

unsigned's Nokia Booklet retro-station guide, with software tips for Windows 7.

Quirks

Finger without finger daemon

See https://plan.cat