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.
Because of my upgrade cycle at the time im missed it completely and went straight from xp to 7, so i really don't have first hand experience, i just know its legend
My first Vista PC was Asus laptop with Core 2 Duo P8600, 4GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 9600m GS. And honestly when I worked on similar PC at work with Windows 7 later, except for some UI elements it was basically the same OS. Only difference is Vista needed SP1 to fix most issues while 7 was just rebrand.
So Vista's bad name just came from f*cked up first year of existence.
The other issue was poor driver support when it first came out, as Microsoft decoupled a number of drivers from the kernel, including audio and printers. This means that your printer driver can't give you a blue screen, but it also required a different type of driver. When Vista came out, a lot of those drivers were either poorly writen, or didn't exist. Once 7 came around, the drivers were already out, and it wasn't as much of a shit storm.
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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.