Vista’s problem was just the terrible third party drivers and the fact that it was preinstalled on machines it had no business running on. 7 didn’t improve much on it (except fixing the UAC prompt so that it no longer made you feel like you’re using Linux with misconfigured sudo timeout), but it had the benefit of already having working drivers from Vista and proper hardware capable of running Vista/7.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 years ago
how was w95 enshittified relative to w3?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
It wasn’t. It was simply better. That was the trend all the way through to Windows 7. Then things went downhill.
huginn@feddit.it 2 years ago
Vista was a nightmare 8 was awful
Windows has consistently released 1 good, 1 bad for a long time now.
The thing is I think win11 is terminal. It’s just forever windows because they can milk it for ads without needing to iterate.
Markaos@lemmy.one 2 years ago
Vista’s problem was just the terrible third party drivers and the fact that it was preinstalled on machines it had no business running on. 7 didn’t improve much on it (except fixing the UAC prompt so that it no longer made you feel like you’re using Linux with misconfigured sudo timeout), but it had the benefit of already having working drivers from Vista and proper hardware capable of running Vista/7.
criitz@reddthat.com 2 years ago
In 1995 people thought Win95 was incomprehensible.