Why was it so overhated?
Because upgrading from XP was buggy, if you did a fresh install it just worked.
>>106467028Yes. I was actually stable and millennium was also the same case.If you had the right hardware it was good.
because it was a buggy piece of shit that shipped with a slow 512mb single core rust spinning garbage pc
Most prebuilt pcs didn't ship with enough ram.Also nvidia was the lead crasher.
>>106467028The release of vista was the death of computing.
I installed it on release and genuinely liked it, possibly because I didn't have some prebuilt dell shitbox and aero ran just finecan't remember the gpu I had at the time, I think it was an ati x300 or something similar
hardwarelets
>>106467408The hardware can't run optimally on unoptimised betaware OS that blue screens every other week. Most remained on XP and by the time SP2 was out most had their eyes on win7.
It got put onto a lot of computers that had no business running it whatsoever
How come no one ever back engineered these operating systems to work on today systems with today's requirements?
>>106467028Computers were sold with XP and the claim that "it totally can run Vista, trust me bro." But when Vista came out, those machines just could not handle it.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/the-vista-capable-debacle-intel-pushes-microsoft-bends/
>>106467028Lots PCs at the time could barely run it, and for the vast majority of people it coincided with the jump from 32-bit to 64-bit, which brought tons of driver issues.
>>106467259This. And bottom-barrel onboard video. Mechanical hard drives, etc. The worst possible platform, but MS wanted to pimp the user numbers, so OEMs got license keys pretty much free.
>>106467028Vista was fine. The problem was that OEMs threw it on hardware that could barely handle XP. On the enthusiast side, Nvidia dropped the ball on drivers of newly-minted 8800GTX. A sizeable number of enthusiasts upgraded to a 8800GTX + Core 2 Qaud combo to go along with Vista.
>>106467038fpbp, worked on my machine.
read the truth
>>106467028new driver model meant a lot of things didn't work at first many machines could run xp fine but not vista
>sóylennials complained about vistaTruly the softest generation
>>106467028ITT:>Windows Vista... Now that was a good Windows! Yep, they don't make 'em like that anymore! *sip*
xp ran on toasters that could play cs 1.6 on low and flash games. vistas minimum requirements were already above the type of machine most people had AND required one to manually disable aero and display features, something the average person has no idea how to do
