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.

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"it's got better applications"

Examples? What runs on Vista that doesn't run on XP? What is it about Vista that is supposed to increase productivity? It's just a bloated OS as far as I'm concerned, and a way for MS to continue to rake in the money from people who don't realise that upgrading isn't necessary.

I've tried Vista, and every five minutes I'm reminded, in a bad way, that I'm running Vista.