Vista could easily be made into a normal gray Windows experience
You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.
Hell, they weren’t doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy “we know better” vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it’s made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.
As the joke goes, “Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later”
(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Vista and 8.1 were my favorite Windows versions since XP.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You sick bastard.
toddestan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have to agree. Vista was a dud, but there were a number of legitimate improvements made over Windows XP. Windows 11 is just a worse Windows 10. Other than maybe tabs in the Explorer, I can’t think of anything they’ve made better and a whole lot they made worse.
amio@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Exactly. Vista was rushed and buggy but that’s, y’know, par for the course really. I think there was a time in the 00’s where they really wanted to be extremely optimistic about Moore’s law-style performance gains, and for some reason they thought they could aim ahead of the curve. Cue Vista actually running like dogshit even aside from outright crashes and such.