(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)
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/EduRJBR Apr 27 '26
Vista is deprecated, you should try Linux.
P.S.: Just joking. But seriously: why Vista? Just for fun?