Wow, my thread really did generate lots of intrest... Lemme give you some advice, saurav:
please remember that linux can be compiled on the system it is to run in, and it can be made as light weight as possible. If you think that a gaming OS has automatic download of game information from the net and looks really cool and all that, you are WRONG. An ideal gaming OS is one which uses as less system resources as possible and is as optimised to the system as possible so as to help the game run better. With all those features you mentioned against vista, It will definitely take much more memory than linux. So kindly understand that this thread still has only ONE objective - to increase FPS in games by making the OS as light as possible. So if you really wanted to show that vista is better than linux at gaming when it comes to open GL games, please tell us a way by which Vista will use less than 16 mb RAM while the game runs, so that even windows users may benifit from load minimilisation.
And please learn to read my post clearly. I never said one has to do lots to run games on linux. Even in the normal way of installing games, they run well, and often with more FPS, compared to windows. No offence intended(not) but I think you are tooo much blinded by your love for windows that you forget to analyze the facts.
I just gave a rather too simple tip to boost linux gaming FPS. I expected guys like infra_red_dude, praka123, mehvuled, etc to lol this thread, but thanks to your ignorance, this thread only got more intresting.
Anyway, I am intrested in doing something like this even with windows gaming, so if you really think you can help, find us a way by which vista OS and other non game related services will use only 16-32 mb of the system RAM while gaming, otherwise kindly stop silly flaming.
For the last time, read the damn thread title before preaching about games explorer. If you had told something relevant, like a methord to boot with aero and other resource hungry and useless-while-gaming processes, I would have thanked you instead of criticizing you.