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Let's wing this one...
I don't know that I've heard that linux has a faster gui than windows. in fact, it probably doesn't.. especially back in version 7 of redhat. Windows has the advantage of microsoft building both the kernel and the gui, ... and thus being able to reuse things that are already in memory (dlls, etc). Programs in windows almost always use the same underlying "window" objects. well... either the MFC or the Win32 ones...
With linux, you have Gnome or KDE developers building on top of X.org developers, on top of the linux kernel and various driver developers... all for FREE. Another penalty comes from the number of interpreted languages always going on. Most windows programs are somewhat compiled - including the gui. Many things in linux guis are programmed in some languages like perl or python.
what windows 98 cannot do is make programs play nice together. it can ask them to play nice, but in the end, one program steals the other's porridge, and the world ends. Blue screen. This is where linux is superior. A couple years ago, and I paraphrase, the head of redhat I believe said linux isn't ready for the desktop consumer.
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