Looked at from another direction, the unix world works beautifully with slim VMs, unlike windows which requires gigabytes of ram. There are plenty of 0.5GB ram

Looked at from another direction, the unix world works beautifully with slim VMs, unlike windows which requires gigabytes of ram. There are plenty of 0.5GB ram unix VMs out there that do their job just fine... and to fork over 20% of that ram just to do shell scripting? Not very portable.