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Posted on 10-28-18 06:49:01 AM Link | Quote
I'm running Vista SP2 on the exact same machine I first experienced Vista on and liked it since, an Acer/Packard Bell iMedia A3010UK from about 10 years ago.

It was a major improvement over XP. It just wasn't released when tech was ready for it, and drivers were poorly written for WDDM. :/

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Posted on 10-28-18 05:13:30 PM (last edited by Kawaii-e at 01-30-22 05:37:51 AM) Link | Quote


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Oh... Windows Vista.

I didn't understand all the hate about it back in '07. As XP had similar problems at its release with lot's of programs, games or HW not working on it.
I built a new computer back then with some respectable specs and had almost no issues with drivers or programs. Some old Win9x games had problems, of course, but mostly it was the installers inability to run.
Even got my then old TV card to work on it.

I loved the aero theme and was just generally impressed by Vista. It was so fluid, did crash less than Win98 and I loved the transparency features of the UI.

I eventually upgraded to Win7, and missed that. With Win8 and later, all that beautifull look was just gone!

Is there a way to have Win10 look like Vista?

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Posted on 10-28-18 06:08:40 PM Link | Quote
I can appreciate Longhorn.
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Posted on 10-28-18 07:13:10 PM Link | Quote
Yeah a lot of people tend to forget that XP was only good after the 2nd service pack, lol.

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Posted on 11-04-18 06:03:35 AM Link | Quote
I've only used Windows Vista for a couple hours, and it was pretty nice. It was a temporary installation, and I nuked it after Windows Update service randomly decided to eat 1.7GB of RAM for no reason. Afterwards I just installed XP 64-bit, and it stayed for several months until I just decided to replace it with an installation of Lubuntu.

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Posted on 11-04-18 06:16:07 AM Link | Quote
Windows Vista was a hell of a lot better than Windows 10 in execution, I'll at least say that.

When I initially used Vista, it was a bit rubbish. But it was a lot better by the first service pack, and it was probably the first consumer 64-bit Windows that was both proper stable and had good driver support.

At the time, Vista seemed a bit rubbish. UAC, in particular, was badly implemented.
But in hindsight... it was a hell of a lot better as a transition from XP, than from 7 to any of its own successors.

That, and, y'know, Windows 7 is basically a service pack of Vista.
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Posted on 11-04-18 07:38:33 AM (last edited by Jamie at 11-04-18 07:39:07 AM) Link | Quote
XP 64-Bit was actually really stable, it just didn't have good driver support at all.

The reason it was still a good transition from XP is that it's really, if you were to trace it down far enough, a big leap/revamp of the NT 5.2 kernel used in Server 2003/XP 64 SP1.

UAC is annoying but it's there for a reason I suppose and there is the option to turn it off AFAIK.

W7 is also now unusable if you update it because of the spy patches and shady 10 backports hidden in security updates.

Posted from IE9 on Windows Vista SP2 Home Premium 64-Bit

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I recently (December 2019) installed Vista onto my relatively modern desktop and it's a dream to use. The UI is decent, there's no duplicate control panel, I think Vista's version of Aero is prettier than 7's. .. I would have no issues unironically saying Windows Vista is better than Windows 10. Granted, that's just because I hate Windows 10, but still. Even if I could get past all the spyware and adware W10 bundles and the badgering about Microsoft Accounts, I'd still prefer Vista because it has everything 10 has, but done better. The sidebar is literally live tiles but in a location that's actually convenient to have open and doesn't reduce the start menu from the cornerstone of the UI to a billboard that takes up most of even a 1080p display with ads, that people just avoid because taskbar pins are faster. Aero is actually visually nice to look at while not being so nice as to be distracting when you need to do things, and Explorer isn't dumbed down at all.

I dunno, I like it more than 7 if I'm being honest. I'd be willing to say it's my favorite version of modern Windows, with second place going to Whistler 241x which I used for a while, even went online with. The thing is, I have hardware that still supports it, mostly from 2012. If I ever upgrade to ca. 2020 hardware in... god, probably 2032, I might be screwed. But then, by that point ReactOS or Haiku will be at a state where I don't need Windows anymore.

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Posted on 01-07-21 10:56:00 PM (last edited by sofi at 01-09-21 11:11:48 AM) Link | Quote

it had its quirks, but i always contended it was a beautiful OS. many people disagreed with me at the time. i feel vindicated that i was on the right side of history, especially seeing where our operating systems ended up. i can only hope that one day we'll be able to make our devices look like this once again.

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Posted on 02-04-22 01:51:14 AM Link | Quote
I have no idea why I said 2019. I know for certain I installed it before November 2018, because I remember using it that November to leak some info on an upcoming product.

Anyway, in the last four years I haven't managed to BSOD Vista a single time. Apparently there's a kernel extender that brings Windows 10 program support to it, and I would absolutely install that if I had the computer on hand this moment. That should definitely keep it going until 2030 at leaat. At that point, I'll be years into.the OpenPOWER ecosystem, so it won't really matter, but still. Even just extending my hardware that long means that much less e-waste joins the pile.

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