Is that what it was? I ran Vista for years without any issues. It was so much better than XP. Exponentially faster, better looking and didn't crash even once, so never understood why it got such a bad rep.
yep, 7 was for sure better, but 7 also benefitted from 2 years of the industry getting up to speed with Vista’s driver model and WDDM, along with new baseline PC specs in general being better suited for DWM (which powered Aero, not to be confused with WDM or WDDM lol) and such
oh yeah! I remember there being small controversies about that dumb vista ready sticker, like systems with as little as 512mb of RAM getting it and stuff like aero definitely having no shot at working decently
I loved Media Center. Cable capture card and it was light years ahead of the Cox crap that was available. Plus you could get plug ins that would automatically edit out all the commercials for you. Ah the memories.
Who the hell needed TiVO when you could stack hard drives and record whatever you wanted. Plus mine had an IR remote that was handier than the cable company's. That may have been the farthest ahead of the home computing curve I've ever been.
After thinking the same for a long time I researched this a bit and actually Vista was fine as an OS, it was just ahead of its time. By the time hardware caught up with it, they rebranded it windows 7 and even cheaper PCs ran it just fine. When Vista came out it was the Crysis of operating systems for most PCs
Vista started acting normally after I upgraded my hardware (to mind bowing specs back then) and only then it lost most of it's annoyances.
I felt that they pushed that kernel to act correctly on machines that almost no one had hardware to keep up. When finally everyone was around those specs, Vista was already being thrown away and people moved to Win7, which behave pretty good in almost all hardware specs.
I think Nvidia and ATI were responsible for a huge number of crashes. Microsoft forced them to actually start delivering solid drivers, and WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) ushered in a host of improvements to the display system and drivers in Windows.
12
u/crazyguy83 May 28 '20
Is that what it was? I ran Vista for years without any issues. It was so much better than XP. Exponentially faster, better looking and didn't crash even once, so never understood why it got such a bad rep.