Vista vs. Linux - Which is REALLY better?

I'm sick of this "just get more ram!" bullshit. My 286 did almost as much functionality-wise as my current multi-ghz machine. Yeah, really. Sure, there was no multi-tasking, but I did the mostly the same things as I do today.
Hello, fuckers, just because you can eat ram doesn't mean you should. It costs money and also reduces the number of programs you can run.
I can see it now: in another ten years programs will have minimum footprint of 1GB, but they'll just do more of the same.

The reason for Vista to run slower on your PC is because it's got better applications, and yes... Those need more performance.

Vista runs way slow on my 3,2 gHz pc, but on my new Dual Core 2,2 gHz laptop it runs great, I don't even notice anything that is slowed down.

The great thing is that if I open up word it loads 'normal', but when I close and open it again, it loads in an awesome fast time. (Same for Photoshop, ...)