Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

  • Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu
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    4 months ago

    Truth be told, Vista wasn’t bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly.

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      4 months ago

      And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues.

      I’ve long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule.

      Windows ME, however…

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      It had the annoying habit of asking “Are you sure you want to run this?” too often; and early cheaper consumer-grade PCs that were really just moderately nice XP machines that could on paper even boot and run Vista that in reality were slow and had poor driver support. I had a Vista machine that was fairly powerful for the day and had decent driver support, like Gateway put some give a shit into it, and it was pretty okay.