Huh? What does swap area size have to do with responsiveness under load? Linux has a long history of being unusable under memory pressure. systemd-oomd helps a little bit (killing processes before direct reclaim makes everything seize up), but there's still no general solution. The relevance to history is that Windows got is basically right ever and Linux never did.

Nothing to do with overcommit either. Why would that make a difference either? We're talking about interactivity under load. How we got to the loaded state doesn't matter.