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.

But I keep trying to tell you that they only got to that point where it is the default OS because they make such a good product, in fact I thought about it and the best idea would be to just get rid of the other companies that make operating systems because they are nowhere near as good and it means everything will be made for the one system and Microsoft will not have to worry about competition so they will not have to spend so much money on ad campaigns so the savings will be passed onto us