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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Exactly!! I am also an [o][u]EXPERT PROGRAMMER[u][o] but even I do not see the point in an OS that doesn't support Microsoft applications, I mean considering they are such a well respected and global OS and software company you would think it should be mandatory to be Microsoft compatible!