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.

I can play all my Gameboy Advance Games on linux (just upgraded my computer from a athlon xp with an agp geforce 6600 to a Athlon x2 with integrated 6100 Geforce because of it having PCIexpress and (obviously) not agp so I can't really run any games because I refuse to play at 800x600 with less than 30fps, once I get a 8600GT or something I will install vista just for the sake of dx10.)