OSX is just like, "Hey guys, if any of you happen to not need your memory sometimes, would you mind kindly letting me know and I'll go ahead and let you go at a convenient time?" Meanwhile Linux goes on a murderous rampage with unpredictable effects.
... And Windows is sitting in a corner, fans kicked on high, trying valiantly to manage with swapping to disk until a sysadmin gives up trying to connect via RDC and yields to the age-old "have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
The part of this I hate most is that if you have physical access to the machine and can hit ctrl-alt-delete you are given an out-of-band dialog that functions flawlessly; this dialog happens to have a "task manager" button, but as the task manager functionality is part of a normal user application and not that magical dialog, you get thrown back into the swap storm, only now with yet another process (taskmgr) competing for memory :(.
OSX is just like, "Hey guys, if any of you happen to not need your memory sometimes, would you mind kindly letting me know and I'll go ahead and let you go at a convenient time?" Meanwhile Linux goes on a murderous rampage with unpredictable effects.