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IMO Vista was better than people give it credit for. ME and 8 were the truly bad releases (I used both, ME is super unstable and 8’s UI is a total mess).
by klodolph 5y ago
IMO Vista was better than people give it credit for. ME and 8 were the truly bad releases (I used both, ME is super unstable and 8’s UI is a total mess).
- Causality1 5y agoVista was fine except for all the OEMs installing it on $300 Office Depot shitboxes. I still miss being able to have My Computer as a menu across the top of my desktop.
- minimaul 5y agoVista ran positively well on decent hardware. On a relatively recent (at the time) processor and ideally more than 1GB of RAM and it was absolutely fine. It's reputation for instability was heavily due to early NVIDIA WDDM drivers being utterly crashtastic - this is something that did eventually get resolved. At the time I had an ATI card and it was perfectly stable.
- selfhoster11 5y agoIt was teeth-grindingly bad even on 2GB of RAM.
- vdqtp3 5y agoIf you could ignore the UI, 8 was actually a great OS underneath...which is why 8.1 was pretty solid, they fixed the UI
- selfhoster11 5y agoNo, it wasn't. At least in my experience, Vista with 2 GB of RAM was dog slow on a mechanical hard drive. So slow, that I eventually replaced it with Linux and got my start into Linux in the first place.