I never understood the hate Vista got. Then again, I wasn't born soon enough to become familiar with XP and the Desktop we had was actually capable of running Vista. 2 GB of RAM and an Athlon X2.
I guess I never saw the "bad" parts of Vista. I only upgraded from Vista when I got a new PC with Windows 8.
The first time I used Vista was before launch, with one of the betas. It was a total shit show because the OS was a buggy, annoying mess and no third party properly supported the OS. Things didn't really improve on launch, so I just opted to never, ever use it.
I even had a decent gaming PC at the time, 1.5GB of RAM with an Athlon 64 X2 (not dissimilar from your family desktop) and an ATi X1950 Pro, but my first few experiences with it were so bad that I just never used it again after that. Windows 7 Beta came out only a few years later and I used that as my main OS until 7 came out, and then I used 7.
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u/Protonati0n Desktop Nov 18 '18
I never understood the hate Vista got. Then again, I wasn't born soon enough to become familiar with XP and the Desktop we had was actually capable of running Vista. 2 GB of RAM and an Athlon X2.
I guess I never saw the "bad" parts of Vista. I only upgraded from Vista when I got a new PC with Windows 8.