What was wrong with it? other than poor people trying to run it on single core computers with 512mb of memory. Always worked fine for me up until I switched to linux
Vista
Hunter Bailey
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Matthew Hernandez
I'd still be using it if it were supported, even.
Daniel Perez
I used XP til 7 was released. Never used Vista. I figure it's probably just a less bother version of 7. I think vistas biggest problem was OEM's shipping it with dogshit machines.
Colton Thompson
You pretty much needed 4GB of RAM for a smooth experience, when on XP at the time could get by with 512MB.
Jaxson Cooper
Honestly one of the most underrated OS's ever
Michael Smith
Mainly this.
I also noticed that Vista was the absolute worst at taking forever to run Windows Update. The process is slow for any edition of Windows, but holy fucking shit Vista was slow at it. I remember helping someone who needed to re-install Vista (viruses of course) and I knew updating from the stock/gold version to the latest one would take a while, but god damn I didn't imagine it would take a full 48 hours. I couldn't just walk away and leave it either because Vista required far more reboots. With XP and 7, you could batch a bunch of updates together and reboot once or twice. Vista seemed like a fucking toddler that I had to care for and couldn't install more than a couple of updates at a time and needed rebooting between each small set.
Mason Davis
That's a massive exaggeration. 1 GB was fine, especially if you were using the 32-bit version. The issue arose because OEMs were selling 512 MB systems as "Vista ready" when that was clearly inadequate for a decent experience.
Vista was hated mainly because of bugs and driver issues on release, plus some annoyances related to UAC. By SP1 those things had largely been worked out. Win7 was pretty much Vista SP1 with some minor tweaks.
Anthony Anderson
I put an ssd in a Vista machine that had 512MB once. It was a really, really weird experience.
Wasn't mine, the drive was just laying in their cabinet unused. I tested it for a while and it did okay, but did strange stutters? I guess you would describe them as? Every few minutes
Colton Carter
I had a nice laptop that ran Vista, had a graphics card and 4gb of ram.
Was my first 'actual' laptop.
I never understood why people hated Vista until I got a pretty wicked virus, at this point tho I had disabled updates and was probably a year or two behind.
I was a stupid kid lol.
Dad used 7 and thought it seemed like Vista with a larger bottom bar. The change happened so quick I didn't even realize where Vista went. Seemed like a proto 7, and I just happened to be using the proto version.
That is also around the time I got into the "install gentoo" cult, so once I installed my first distro on that machine, Vista was dead
Luke Williams
they released it too early, even after cutting features, it took 2 service packs to get gud