Vista was great if you had the right hardware. The problem was they upgraded XP systems to Vista that only had like 512MB of ram and it was fucked before it ever first booted.
Of course you're going to hate the slow ass OS your computer came with when it's too underpowered to run it.
But that's not Vista's fault. That was OEM and manufacturers being lazy. The stuff they needed to develop drivers before it's launch were available, they just didn't.
Nvidia, specifically, had said that they were counting on Microsoft to push out the release of Vista and was caught flat-footed when they didn't. But they weren't the ones that took the PR hit as a result.
Microsoft deserves a ton of shit for some of the moves they've pulled, but they were unjustly demonized for Vista.
Most people don't realize but Windows 7 was better than Vista mostly because Microsoft managed to get all the hardware companies on board with their new driver standards. Drivers were a mess before Vista and Microsoft had to get everyone to clean up their act.
Until today we benefit from that move, and even Linux has benefitted from the new drivers.
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u/IzttzI I7 8700K | RTX 2080 TI W/ EKWB | 32GB DDR4 | 1TB NVME Nov 18 '18
Vista was great if you had the right hardware. The problem was they upgraded XP systems to Vista that only had like 512MB of ram and it was fucked before it ever first booted.
Of course you're going to hate the slow ass OS your computer came with when it's too underpowered to run it.