[EmpirePhoenix]

Things go very south in windows if you ever use really much swap. Had this with a CAM process using a lot of swap.

You barely move the barrier until the backing pagefile cannot grow anymore (which with a fast but small nvm can be reached within a few seconds). After that you get stuff like a taskmanager without fonts, as there is no memory for loading it anymore...

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Yeah, so, worst case it is exactly like Linux. However, at least with Windows properly behaving software isn't being lied to about its allocations.