Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone’s rig.
95 wasn’t bad. 98 had some bugs and they quickly released 98SE, which was great and then they released the soggy turd of windows Millennium.
That was their disaster year. Windows ME, released just 2 years after 98 in 2000, and written out of existence just one year later by Windows XP.
Windows XP… such expressive, truly material-like, design, only Vista comes close. But XP ran so much better.
Vista is the OS that taught me the desktop compositor is capable of destroying game performance and latency
Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone’s rig.