• youngalfred@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Vista wasn’t that bad. The dodgy selling it on computers that couldn’t handle it was an issue (much like they still do with selling laptops with only 32gb storage).

    I still think it was one of the nicest looking - black taskbar with the start button sticking up, sidebar widgets, aero glass etc

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      7 days ago

      It was never stable for me. I remember I had a laptop that would always refuse to shut down because “shutdown.exe” was running

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      You’re absolutely right about this. 7 is basically a Vista service pack that got rebranded.

      All of the “good stuff” people credit 7 with came in Vista.

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      I remember the hardware situation being very fucked, due to driver authors not updating their shit in time and people trying to get their older stuff working which worked fine under XP, but was incompatible with Vista’s new driver model. It took a couple years until the release of 7 for most of those issues to get ironed out.

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      I think some of the biggest complaints about Vista were its poor driver support and over-active UAC. You couldn’t hardly do anything on the computer without UAC bugging you for permission when Vista first came out.

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        “couldn’t do anything”

        This was a third-party implementation problem, not an OS issue.

        By the time Third party software stopped being all loosy-goosey like the OS was windows XP, Microsoft had already re-branded the OS to Win7.

        Vista’s UAC wasn’t any more problematic than sudo is.