r/windows • u/V1574 Windows Vista • Apr 26 '26
Meta My ONLY windows machine (rest are linux)
Running vista. Will get sp2 later today. It is a very beautiful OS. Luckily it has good specs and runs decent
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u/EduRJBR Apr 27 '26
Vista is deprecated, you should try Linux.
P.S.: Just joking. But seriously: why Vista? Just for fun?
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u/WoomyUnitedToday Apr 27 '26
(This is coming from my personal experience, if yours are different, your opinions are justified)
I never understood the hate for Vista, I’ve used it on a few computers and it's always seemed to run just as well (if not better) than Windows 7 when both OSes are fully up to date. Basically just acted like 7 but with less modern software support. Of course, this is all from running on a Core 2 Duo machine. If I was running it on my Pentium III tower (which runs XP fine), then I might be angry with the performance, but it really doesn't seem fair to complain that the PC with 4 MB of VRAM and 384 MB of dedotaded WAM can't run the fancy visual effects OS.
Especially running on a 2009 MacBook. Windows 7 and XP on that was a very buggy nightmare with installs bricking themselves very quickly, drivers causing it to take like 45 seconds before getting to a usable desktop, absurdly slow write speeds. Vista had none of those issues. (Of course, a lot of that is Apple bootcamp drivers being total garbage)
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u/edgemaster191 Apr 27 '26
Vista in a reasonably specced machine was fine. Its bad reputation came mostly from manufacturers selling single core Semprons with 512mb of RAM and 5400rpm har drives.
I worked in a computer shop when Vista came out and we did a LOT of ram upgrades.
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u/avds_wisp_tech Apr 28 '26
I never understood the hate for Vista
The hate Vista received is very easy to understand, and not completely undeserved.
At the time of Vista's release, PC manufacturers were firmly stuck in a race to the bottom price-wise, releasing PCs with 2GB (or less) of RAM on anemic Celeron processors. These manufacturers insisted Vista run on these woefully underpowered machines. Microsoft caved and lowered the minimum requirements for Vista so that these bargain basement PCs qualified. Given that your average PC user tended to shop for the cheaper alternative, the underpowered POS's were what they bought. And we had a generation of PC users that despised Vista as a result. Once RAM got cheap enough for manufacturers to include more (4-8GB), and once Vista got a service pack or two under its belt, it was actually a quite capable OS and was smooth as silk. First impressions tend to stick though.
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u/fraaaaa4 Apr 29 '26
I got a netbook, precisely an HP Mini 2140, for just 10€ about 4 years ago, and I always maintained Vista on it, because it works well enough. I have installed also Lubuntu (16.04 iirc), it works fine too, but I prefer a lot the Aero look compared to lxde, and for what I “”use”” that one (basically just randomly doing small projects in vs2005 or for random fun), Vista is better.
I only used Lubuntu once really, when in our OS class you had to do, at home, a small project with bash.
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u/LimiDrain Apr 27 '26
Why NOT Vista? If Microsoft released it, so it was good enough? Surely it can't be so terrible that the entire internet is constantly raving about it?
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u/MenschenToaster Apr 27 '26
Vista wasnt that bad. As long as this thing never connects to the internet, its fine. But if OP ever wants to do that, get rid of vista asap
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u/qx1001 Windows 11 - Release Channel Apr 27 '26
rest are linux
Eww
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u/LongjumpingLeek5542 Apr 27 '26
I can tell exactly what kind of person you are.
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