Tux to Lemmy [email protected]English • edit-213 days agoEnshittification only hurts product itself.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1543arrow-down139file-text
arrow-up1504arrow-down1imageEnshittification only hurts product itself.lemmy.worldTux to Lemmy [email protected]English • edit-213 days agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremetaStaticlinkfedilink11•14 days agoVista doesn’t deserve the hate it gets. There was very little difference between it and 7 which everyone loves. Vista was a giant upgrade from XP, it was like going from GemOS to win95
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•14 days agoThe issue with Vista was almost solely the lack of driver support for anything. Vista caused a lot of vendors to slowly but surely start updating drivers for their products and enabled Windows 7 to have a much smoother launch. Really Win7 stands on the shoulders of Vista.
minus-squareL3ft_F13ld!linkfedilinkEnglish2•13 days agoWhat also completely screwed Vista was all of the XP era PCs getting a Vista Ready sticker slapped on when they very much did not have the hardware to run it properly.
Vista doesn’t deserve the hate it gets. There was very little difference between it and 7 which everyone loves.
Vista was a giant upgrade from XP, it was like going from GemOS to win95
The issue with Vista was almost solely the lack of driver support for anything.
Vista caused a lot of vendors to slowly but surely start updating drivers for their products and enabled Windows 7 to have a much smoother launch.
Really Win7 stands on the shoulders of Vista.
What also completely screwed Vista was all of the XP era PCs getting a Vista Ready sticker slapped on when they very much did not have the hardware to run it properly.