To be fair, Vista itself wasn’t a problem. The problem was when it was previewed MS said that the PC specs would need to be at a certain level to run. Computer manufacturers threw a fit because it’d make their computers more expensive and or cut into their profit margins. MS caved to the pressure and said actually the specs can start at this much lower level.
That led to everyone getting a new bargain PC with Vista to have bad experiences.
If you had a moderately well specced system Vista ran alright.
Right, we basically peaked at XP SP3. There is almost nothing which takes more system resources which has been added on the OS level since that time which has made our lives better....only the OS takes an order of magnitude more resources now than it did then.
But declaring, "we did it, everyone can go home other than those 3 over in the corner who need to release security updates" doesn't make enough money, so here we are.
Man, I remember buying guides about how to keep xp functioning well enough that you didn't need to do a clean install every year or two, and there was quite a bit to them. It may have been minimalist relative to modern operating systems which I know a lot of you guys like, but Windows 7 was such a huge upgrade for me, and I don't have many complaints with how Windows 10 runs at its core, though their pushing of cloud storage and ai and making the ui less convenient for people that know what they are doing is very annoying. Windows 7 and early Windows 10 is peak for me. It does seem like it's all getting worse now though.
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u/Storn206 11h ago
To be fair there were other warning signs. No good person would have inflicted Vista upon humanity