I personally never had any issues with Vista. Even deferred win7 for 4-5 years until I got curious. Though I did have a system made for it, so that was part of it.
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saltesc@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoFuck you. Bringing up ME and making me relive the memories. Even as a kid, I couldn’t stand it wanted 98 back.
ME and Vista are by far the worst to date.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Vista was a nightmare if you had OEM equipment that wasn’t just vista compatible, but MADE FOR VISTA. Your experience was an aberration, most people got ‘vista compatible’ PCs that were running vista but made with XP sp1 in mind. So you’d see these systems that had no hardware graphics acceleration beyond onboard anemic garbage trying to run menus with DOF blur and soft overlays just gagging, and god forbid you had to troubleshoot/support some software on some shit like this, it was a nightmare.
The rest of the people upgraded from XP to Vista themselves, and the smart ones went “OH FUCK NO” and went back in droves.
MxM111@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
8 was quite bad too
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
8 only gets hate because people lost their minds with the start menu change.
MxM111@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
It had multiple personalities disorder. Two e-mails, two browsers, two settings. It was confusing as hell.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I actually liked it then, you could just roughly click in the area and would hit the right shortcut.
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I liked the start page. I don’t use icons on the desktop though. Being able to pull up a customized shortcut screen was quite nice.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
11 is trying its darnedest.
MxM111@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
Really? I do not see much difference compared with 10, other than shifted start button.
087008001234@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The silenced cries of the side taskbars…
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, this pissed me off. It’s almost never useful, but spanning the whole x-axis on an ultra wide does make less sense.
I hated icon stacking also because I had a wide monitor and didn’t want to have extra clicks.
Ironically, now I have so many things open, the stacking only makes sense when I get ~15 explorer windows open and they’re all displayed as a tall list
TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well aside from that, which shouldn’t have been set by default imo, it has more bugs, ridiculous system requirements, requires a ms account even more than before and runs worse.
I guess however bad the versions before it might have been, they at least kind of had a point? 11 is just a shitty reskin to squeeze out those sweet licensing dollars. They didn’t even bother changing the version number in the older releases.
morhp@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
I switched mostly to Linux when windows 8 was released, but I don’t mind 11. It looks quite nice, the start menu is pretty good and normal again compared to the ugly full screen shitshow from windows 8 and the weird hybrid thing from windows 10 and most of that foreign mobile metro crap from windows 8 is gone again or reintegrated into the desktop.
Having tabs in the explorer is also super nice.