While true, there is a quantitative difference:
The linux trick is quite obscure, only used when you're in serious trouble. It's the same level of knowledge as removing a hard drive.
Meanwhile, the F8 trick was in common use by tons of teenagers, especially in Win95: A lot of games were still DOS based and you needed windows out of your RAM if you wanted any performance. People still used the config.sys boot menus to choose between windows and gaming. Browsing the file system and editing text files in DOS were still common enough activities.
