Was Windows Vista THAT Bad?

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That intro was pretty good :^)
Vista however, It wasn't great.

yes

Vsta's only great when you have enough performance, which unfortunately many systems at that time don't.

I recommend watching this if you want some more details

"janky looking u.i"

Vista was beautiful. Aero in general was. don't @ me.

Just now, firelighter487 said:

"janky looking u.i"

 

Vista was beautiful. Aero in general was. don't @ me.

Vista Looked a hell of a lot better than it's predecessor.

Vista wasn't inherently bad.

The problem was that, at the time, it was significantly more demanding on hardware than XP.  But companies were still selling PC's with specs suitable for XP and marketing them as Vista ready, and Microsoft didn't do anything about that.

Just now, Cubity_First said:

Vista Looked a hell of a lot better than it's predecessor.

and it's successors. 

Vista looked good. But oh boy I skipped it after a while. I've used xp, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 95 and 98 more.

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

and it's successors. 

Windows Vista and 7 looked.. very similar, 8 was a bit of a shock, and then 10 is probably my favourite version so far, clean and basic.
 

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

and it's successors. 

Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 looked better

made me switch to osx. didn't regret that looking how every windows update has more bugs than the previous one...

Can't wait to be able to play all my games on Linux

1 minute ago, Nicnac said:

made me switch to osx. didn't regret that looking how every windows update has more bugs than the previous one...

Can't wait to be able to play all my games on Linux

We're discussing windows here. Also, disagree about the updates. And I hope you ever heared about hackingtosh

1 minute ago, Cubity_First said:

Windows Vista and 7 looked.. very similar, 8 was a bit of a shock, and then 10 is probably my favourite version so far, clean and basic.
 

10 has 2 different interfaces for settings, and some are in the modern ui and some are in the legacy ontrol panel. clean? nope. 

it installs apps without my permission and updates and reboots without permission too. basic? also nope. 

2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 looked better

7 was fine, but 8 and up... nope. 

especially compared to macOS. 

7 was what vista should have been, but couldnt be.

my experiences with vista were mostly ones of regular bluescreens and stupid fixes to get older games to run.

4 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 looked better

They looked really, really similar. (atleast Vista and 7).

I was using Vista for years and years, and it was... not awful, but it was okay.

Just now, WikiForce said:

looks are not everything, the catch was it had major performance issues with systems back then.

yeah, I'm aware of that, but looking back at it now, with the gift that is hindsight.

If you think about it then Windows 10 is just another Windows 7, people hated 8 and 8.1 so they used the same codebase to make an improved version.

If 7 was released instead of Vista at the same time you would have had very similar backlash. Vista was pushed on absolute garbage machines that could barely run on XP with Vista Ready stickers. Biggest mistake ever. That combined with the new driver type made Vista into a mess. It really wasn't THAT bad.

Microsoft really should've done something for people who wanted an OS upgrade but didn't have the machine for it.  Maybe like a Vista Lite for older machines

7 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

If you think about it then Windows 10 is just another Windows 7, people hated 8 and 8.1 so they used the same codebase to make an improved version.

And Windows 7 itself is a modification of Vista.

I remember when I installed Vista back in the day on my ThinkPad (Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, 4 GB RAM) and the led that showed hard drive activity was constantly blinking. I went back after a week to Linux and KDE (I don't remember which distro exactly), because it was quite slow.

But that was nothing compared to Windows ME. That thing was much slower than Windows 98 SE or 2000, and it was bluescreening all the time.

the voice in the intro kind of reminds me of Ballas from warframe.

for comparison

Back in 2014, I got a PC with a i3 3240 and GTX 650. I got random BSODs on 7, and I heard that Vista actually wasn't bad, so I decided I'd try it. I had no issues, it ran perfectly. I also used it on my FX 8300/R7 260x machine in 2015/16.