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.

You can't really expect EVERYONE to use linux. Windows is used more frequently because of it's ergonomic traits. You think everyone who uses a computer will automatically know what "find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;" means? Should they have to? No.

I don't see why people who use linux bash on Windows. Windows can do everything Linux does, plus more. Just like Linux can do many things that Windows can. Yeah, it sucks RAM. Linux can, too.