Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was certainly pushed on many PCs that had no business trying to run it, especially laptops. But honestly I’ve used both and even on a computer that could run it, I didn’t see anything that justified how much more resources it required.

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  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And apparently on launch it was quite buggy in part due to poorly made drivers

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The OS was kinda buggy, but vista changed a lot with drivers so probably most of the issues vista had were drivers. I bought a laptop with vista on it in 08 and it was rock solid.

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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m afraid I can’t speak authoritatively on the subject, however taking a step back - MS do have a record for driving hardware uptake with their system releases.

  In theory it’s not a bad thing - Unreal and Quake II (among many) requiring 3D accelerator hardware largely drove PC gaming into the lead for cutting edge graphics - but the type of hardware MS have been requiring has always been a bit of a clusterfuck - a prime recent example being the supposed requirement of a TPM board in a Win11 computer.

  My anecdotal experience is that Vista - while pretty - is a bit of a bloatfest regardless of what hardware you run it on.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My anecdotal experience is that Vista - while pretty - is a bit of a bloatfest regardless of what hardware you run it on.

    I use Linux, so I haven’t personally run into it, but is that just because of the Aero interface stuff? IIRC a lot of that can be disabled.

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    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll be honest, I used Windows XP fairly extensively then switched to Lubuntu while learning about Windows 7. My workplace moved from NT4 to Windows 7, and then to Windows 10 which is the only versions I’ve had serious exposure to.

      My only real experience of Vista and 8 has been installing it on folk’s devices, patching them to a current state, and Ninite-ing them full of handy applications.

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• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vista was good eventually, but certainly not on launch. It launched with absurdly aggressive popups about for User Account Control and backwards compatibility was somewhat spotty, largely due to the security changes. By the end, though, it was actually really solid, to the point that Win7 essentially launched as Vista Service Pack 2 with a new taskbar skin.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The main issue with that is MS made a million different versions of Vista and some of them had significantly higher requirements than others. So you had OEMs selling machines that were ‘Vista Ready’ in the lead up to launch but they barely made the requirements for the basic version. Then you had people going to Best Buy and getting the premium version and having a horrible experience.

  I had Vista on my MacBook Pro and it was a a solid OS, especially if you needed 64-bit support. In fact the Pro was PC Magazine’s #1 pick for Vista machines which caused quite a stir at the time when Bootcamp was still new.

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