Choice. In windows to use the latest windows would mean taking it with the added bloat (so I use win98) while in linux so many distributions run well on an old system. Plus it's so cool to run in console without a GUI! 
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Hardware - Celeron 266 MHz, 128MB RAM, Intel i740 8MB RAM
Software - Slackware Linux 10.1; Archlinux 0.7; Windows 98 SE
Humanware - GS/CS C++ L+++ w b+++ DI+ D+ e
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