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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Truth be told, Vista wasn't bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues.

I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule.

Windows ME, however....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And I was one of the very few who were lucky enough to have one.

And it lasted me like, 11 years.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 1 month ago

It had the annoying habit of asking "Are you sure you want to run this?" too often; and early cheaper consumer-grade PCs that were really just moderately nice XP machines that could on paper even boot and run Vista that in reality were slow and had poor driver support. I had a Vista machine that was fairly powerful for the day and had decent driver support, like Gateway put some give a shit into it, and it was pretty okay.