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.

>>96 hasn't used Linux in the past ten years.

>>97
Installing Vista for the sake of DX10 is fucking retarded. There isn't a single game on the market that requires it, and there won't be until Microsoft ports it to XP.
And even then, the Wine project is already working on DX10 support, so you don't even need Windows.