Why Windows Vista Sucked | What Went Wrong

[@nationsquid]

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[@eggnog97]

I would like to listen to people talk about the Beatles!

[@edwinlundmark]

I got kinda scared, because I have been binging beatles content for months now, and I thought that this was some kind of new advertising lol. Did not expect you to have a beatles channel, but I'll check it out!

[@Solidude]

The Beatles? I'm in! What a treat this is.

[@gamingglatiator69]

Windows Vista is better than Windows 8, change my mind

[@iProgramInCpp]

Why do you use unicode bold? Just put asterisks *around* the text that you want to make bold, it looks nicer and is more universally supported

[@zed4643]

Windows vista’s interface must be one of the most visually beautiful softwares I’d ever seen. But yes it was sluggish as hell back in 2007. Needless to say, vista walked so that windows 7 could run.

[@dunkim7527]

Totally agreed. Vista had the most amazing visuals ever

[@jari7018]

I had vista when it release 2007. When MS solved problems like memory eating it really work well. My combuter was core2duo 3750 and 8gb ram 500gb hard disk. Then I use readyboost usb memory. With that readyboost memory Vista running smooth. I had no problems to install games or playing vista. All office tools works well and other working softhware what I use in 2007. At the end I was very happy vista user and I use it to the end of vista timeline even win 7 has arrived allready.🙂 And now today I have to say that vista is much better that win10 to use. Win10 is no longer just pc softhware it is mix phone and gaming apps. And I hate it sooo much. And normal pc user has been forget in MS. They want that people playing some unnessary apps. And Today windows 10 don't run older softhware. In pc user I want windows 7 back. It was best microsoft os. And then come vista and xp. I will forget windows os when win 10 updated end and start to use Linux. I will never updated on Win11.

[@ZombiesWerePeopleToo]

Windows Vista doesn’t have the same nostalgia factor as a lot of old OSes because Windows 7 was just Windows Vista but better in every way. The graphics were only slightly downgraded for 7 but otherwise Vista just feels totally redundant in a way that even Windows 95 doesn’t.

[@zed4643]

@@jari7018 windows 7 was definitely the best OS. Windows 10 is so annoying to use because I feel like I’m using a windows phone.

[@crackpointfivelive9418]

@@zed4643 If 10 was like using a windows phone, I have a feeling 11 will be like using an iphone.

[@TheSUPERWIND2023]

Vista was actually AHEAD of its time, To the point that computers couldn't handle the new UI and features.

[@nationsquid]

Exactly! In a lot of ways, Vista was just sadly misunderstood. Thank you for watching! :)

[@RoadRunner592]

Exactly. Had it been released later in 2007 or early 2008, the hardware would have been able to handle Vista a lot better. Intel Core 2 Duo and Quads were out in late 07/early 08 and AMD's Phenom 2's had dual, triple, quad and even six cores in the CPUs. Most computers at Vista's launch were Pentium 4's and Celeron D's with 512MB to 1GB of RAM, 100GB hard drives and integrated Intel GMA.

[@zephyrous8155]

Nice roblox setup

[@Brutalexecution]

I remember it was pretty cool looking, but it didn't support my ''Lexicon Omega'' USB Audio interface, which was the main reason I switched back to Windows XP. I also had some crashes from time to time. But I really liked the design.

[@tahiryousaf6056]

Exactly vista was much ahead of it's time..

[@bubbletea_]

Our family used a Vista machine during my middle school years, so to me it was just normal. I didn't know anything about the negative perception people had of it nor did I really care. I just wanted to watch KZbin videos and play Club Penguin.

[@ryann1635]

Facts but I was in early elementary

[@anotherdimensions9113]

My uncle had Vista OS installed in his computer way back then when XP had its peak of popularity in almost everywhere as what my Dad also uses in his office. Aside from the appearance of it which I really appreciate, it feels home, relaxing and I used to borrow it to socialize with other people on Club Penguin. Those were the elementary days. And play some flash games online, and watch stickman animations, etc.

[@antenna_prolly]

Similar story. I wasn't a major gamer or anything, so Vista never seemed slow or underpowered for me... I even did a lot of art on it.

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

Same. I actually remember liking how it looks.

[@TyLovesWeedCat]

Same bro 😂

[@justinhamilton8647]

My older brother had a crappy laptop with vista on it, he passed away in 2009. Vista will always hold a special place in my heart for all the afternoons we spent playing around in his laptop, watching KZbin and drawing and playing games.

[@lukaskrivanek4517]

Im so sorry for your loss :(

[@HuntergamerbenOfficial]

Rest in peace to your brother

[@yeetsupYT]

@Heartland Railfanner™ insensitive

[@MarxBoi48]

​@@yeetsupYT snowflake

[@yeetsupYT]

@@MarxBoi48 American

[@willwest1010]

I loved how the OS looked like everything was made by glass, it looked so clean and sophisticated compared to XP

[@PurblePink8678]

Xp looked like cheap Blue plastic and it's very unsecure, Vista on the other hand is still pretty secure after 14 weird years. Plus the glass theme fits the Name "Windows" very well since household windows are made out of glass!!

[@BinglesP]

I agree, the whole "glass gradient" Y2K aesthetic is really cool and still looks modern today in my opinion. Flat color is for country flags!

[@distendedmist5840]

And like glass, it is easily broken

[@PurblePink8678]

@@distendedmist5840 Commrade, don't provoke me

[@atchaaa]

@@distendedmist5840 LOL

[@urphakeandgey6308]

For some reason, Vista had my favourite aesthetic. It felt like the perfect middle ground between XP and 7. The fact most of the aesthetic carried into 7 must mean that was never much of an issue.

[@Keanine]

7 really was just what Vista could have been if it was polished

[@VestedUTuber]

@@Keanine 7 was pretty much Vista with polish, and without the annoying additions that somehow wormed their way in from the Longhorn project, like Sidebar.

[@cr-pol]

@@Keanine W7 also had important plumbing fixes and additions for tcp/ip and smb.

[@Synergiance]

@@Keanine 7 was polished windows Vista in a functionality sense. Windows Vista always looked ever so slightly better to me.

[@pinstripecool34]

Man I loved Vista, I remember being so blown away by the new UI it looked so modern and futuristic at the time.

[@SpaceSysZ]

I remember vista being used in my school back then and I loved the Aero theme. No slowdowns, no crashes. It shows that with the right hardware, Vista was great. More than a decade later, I’m reliving Vista with a virtual machine

[@minecraftslegacycommunity486]

Me too!

[@sonjawalkerreactionscommen3501]

Vista has a sound scheme that I loved so much that I only got to hear on KZbin through a channel that's known for archiving the different sounds computers made over the years.

[@shadowangel2235]

No, even with "the right hardware", Vista was still crap. Not as bad as ME, which is still the worst OS ever puked out by Microsoft, but it ranks in the bottom 5 along side trash like the first Dos and ME. You just go by selective nostalgia, that's all.

[@Seven71987]

Windows 7 is just Vista!

[@minecraftslegacycommunity486]

@@Seven71987 but better

[@thereare2spoons]

Vista was NOT BAD. I completely agree this: "Vista just came out too early." If Vista was release when at least 1-2GB RAM in a rig is common everywhere, I am sure we will never hear "Vista sucked"

[@nationsquid]

I think that is a very accurate and fair assessment to make! A lot of Vista's issues were problems of the time that made it misunderstood. Thanks for watching! :)

[@MiLoCzE]

Vista had problems with drivers... manufactures musts create all new drivers for NT 6.0 windows core... windows XP drivers wont works... Windows 7 had better start, becauase stable Vista drivers can works on Windows 7

[@Edit_effect545]

if this be happend then it will be very good but now its time to bye to windows vista,7,8, and say hello to windows who missed all those windows

[@Keldor314]

In terms of "Vista came out too early", I definitely agree. But eventually it "came out of beta" as it were, at which point it was renamed to "Windows 7"

[@kevinkusman2081]

Vista did come out in the era of 1gb to 2gb ram... but if you ran the system with that config, they will eat up 1gb ram on startup from background processes... when i had removed all the bloat from the system i found out that it had run over 2 gb worth of ram on the background because back then they moved things to the page file as well.. and we were running hdd...

[@PaulStompbox]

As a 7 year old kid when I first saw Windows Vista in 2007, I was in awe and felt as I had already began living in the future. I convinced both my parents to buy brand new Vista computers (because I assumed there wasn't such thing as installing the OS on old computers, to which, I judged correctly but for different reasons), and so, in 2007 and 2008, they got one each, to which, I loved them. I loved the apps they had, the gadgets sidebar, the glossy look and feel, and, just the fact it was the newest thing available. I had no idea people really hated it. Then Seven came out, and while I wasn't too excited for it other than that it was the newest OS, I asked my parents to upgrade just from the Vista computers because it was newer and Vista started to look somewhat aged. That's my story.

[@silverhowl9331]

I didn’t know this OS garnered a bad reputation for itself either, and I loved using it until upgrading to 7.

[@tylerweston6082]

Who let's their 7 year old talk them into spending hundreds of dollars on multiple computers

[@TimurTripp2]

Vista looked pretty futuristic to 9-year-old me on my mom's new laptop as well. I don't recall her having any major issues with it but it was a new laptop designed for Vista, not an older one which had been upgraded. I got my own Vista laptop two years later and it felt like a massive upgrade. Then went to 7 which also felt like an upgrade but not as much as XP to Vista, then around the time 8 came out went to Mac and never looked back.

[@aleksandersats9577]

You can still have windows sidebar on windows 10. You just need to add back the registry values that it needs and directly copy windows sidebar from vista itself to the same folder in windows 10, and voila. I myself am using windows sidebar from windows vista in windows 10

[@davejnathan10]

I too think the same when i first saw vista!

[@tamasakura4062]

Remember when I first switched from xp to vista, It was just like seeing the future. That UI looks gorgeous, the icons in vista is top level even now. When win7 came out, I really wanted it has the vista UI, but can run faster.

[@nationsquid]

The switch was quite magical for me too. I felt that Vista was 10x easier to navigate than XP was, and I thought the search bar was just revolutionary at the time. Thanks for watching! :)

[@_nom_]

Tbh it didn't really run faster. Hardware just evolved. I remember installing the Vista beta on my xp machine, it ran perfectly fine. But I had more ram than the typical person at the time

[@JhanOjan]

@@_nom_ it's actually does. i remembered in 2008 i bought 2nd hand PC with 2,8ghz pentium 4 single core, 1,5GB DDR memory, and 512mb ATI Radeon X1550 on AGP bus. i fresh installed Vista SP1 on that machine. everything running fine until i installed all tools i needed for my studies like Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Visual Basic and antivirus. next time i boot up my computer, it took 3 times longer than before, and when i doing something heavy productivity, it starts to showing bluescreen or lag on the UI. after experiencing that, i switched back to XP 1 year later, win7 came out, i tried to install that on my very same machine. after i installed everything i need for my works and studies, surprisingly, even using the same driver as vista, the experience was totally different. boot time of course take longer but not significant enough to notice. the UI doesn't have any lag issues and i've never encountered any blue screen until i upgrade again to windows 8.

[@ahmadk.371]

My experience with Vista was very good because When Vista was released I bought a new laptop and it was with visa preinstalled. It was a nice and smooth experience (3GB of Ram, and a Centrino 2 processor). I can’t forget this system.

[@scarlett5554]

@@DuoizHere XD

[@evnsriram]

I remember installing Vista on my 1gb ram pc and it still ran without crashing. It was definitely ahead of it's time.

[@boboboy8189]

Obviously that service pack 1. Windows xp before service pack 1 also is unstable

[@blacksonic56]

Ngl that start up sound was really nostalgic

[@nationsquid]

Yeah it was! Wait until the XP video comes out! :)

[@mrnobody.4069]

I was a Windows XP user I upgraded my computer to Ubuntu and I hated it so now I want to go back to Windows XP but at least someone has to admit to XP even today still is a good operating system

[@somerandomchannel2669]

@@mrnobody.4069 ...but it doesn't even support licensed Minecraft lol

[@L133.7]

i am still using windows 7 till this day

[@markarca6360]

And it was still in Windows 7.

[@frankzeppelin]

This video is mostly fair, but it's leaving out one key element: Microsoft has historically relied on the revenue from mediocre (or awful) intermediate releases between their premiere operating systems. These intermediate OS's add functionality, but not really as much as would generally warrant getting a new one. The simple fact is that most people were happy with XP. I loved XP. And I didn't get much experience with Vista but there were too many credible stories of it just being slow and buggy. And Microsoft's position was basically, "You're computer must be too old so go buy a new one," which didn't help. Vista was a solution to a problem most users didn't have.

[@lroke2947]

@BloxyHD I just finished upgrading hardware at an office with 15 workstations abolishing the computers that could (and did) run Windows 10, but were a bit sluggish. Now each of the 15 computers show Windows 11 in their updates section and 10 of them show they don't qualify. Mine doesn't either. I can't even test it unless I get a new one.

[@paulberry2884]

100% agree. XP did everything I needed. Vista added functionality I didn't need or want in exchange for sluggish and buggy performance.

[@Nerdy_The_Punk]

Great reply frank

[@brycemcneil4404]

Windows peaked with XP, IMO. And very true re: intermediates. Back in the day the running gag was that only every second Windows was destined to be a good one.

[@Nerdy_The_Punk]

@@brycemcneil4404 Everyone is forgetting the system worse then Vista. Who remembers windows ME now that was the pinical of garbage lol

[@asherscottL]

My family went from Windows 98 to Vista, and I remember being so blown away. I was so puzzled as to why people hated it so much

[@asteroidrules]

I went from XP to Vista when I upgraded my machine and it still blew me away. When Vista's on hardware that can handle it, it puts XP to shame.

[@executor31]

Windowx XP worked wonderful.Vista didnt support your gpu or audio card , so beside not getting a improvement , you got a bricked OS

[@Aereto]

@@asteroidrules The catch being hardware that can keep up with Vista. Most people cannot afford the latest of hardware with their budget.

[@ashwinnarasimhan2729]

@@asteroidrules It lagged a bit when I upgraded my parents desktop from 2005 with an Athlon 64 processor, but when I installed it on my 2007 MacBook Pro it ran pretty well. I would also say a big issue was that the 32-bit versions of Vista were not as stable as the 64-bit version. I originally only had the disk for the 32-bit versions, but when I upgraded the RAM from 2 GB to 4 GB I had to reinstall the 64-bit version to use all my RAM on Windows (2 GB was enough for Boot Camp, but not enough when running Vista as a virtual machine).

[@asteroidrules]

@@Aereto Well Microsoft is forcing that issue now, they significantly overinflated Windows 11's listed system requirements just to make sure people don't use it on hardware that's on the margins.

[@trilobitemmmxxx8019]

I loved the looks and slick design of Vista, the aero effects were great, plus the cool integrated gadgets. I never had major problems with the system either.

[@evila9076]

It had driver problems for like the first 2 years. But after those got ironed out it was a pretty solid experience.

[@evila9076]

@@brobbus0 to be fairer to vista modern version lack those effects yet are even heavier and more bloated than ever.

[@Maiake008]

@@brobbus0 Perhaps, but XP was heavier and more bloated than Windows 2000 and Windows 98 SE. In terms of functionality it added very little, if anything at all (to windows 2000 that is)

[@johnfromthird4020]

To this day I still absolutely LOVE the look of Vista... It was so pretty. So much better than the flat materiel esque design we have today on computers throughout. Also the old Iphone UI where nothing was flat. Everything was cel-shaded.

[@space0015]

Flat gang unite

[@signinplease.321]

yeah now when i think of old and nostalgic, i think of nicely shaded gui and icons.

[@cr-pol]

much as i hated Vista, Aero when it had the proper hardware was awesome. W7 had an addon from someone that provided what Aero did (if not Aero itself) but by the time of w10 the industry decided Aero stuff was too much of a resource hog.

[@Synergiance]

@@cr-pol iirc it was stripped because the original surface wasn't powerful enough for it

[@joangog]

Hahahahah sims cheatscodes 11:00

[@srusdy]

I remember having my first laptop with vista installed. Honestly it was mindblowing how good the design was compared to xp. And i don't remember any error or crashed. At least until the dust clogged the fan and toast it to oblivion

[@wordart_guian]

I don't remeber any crash on mine either. I don't think vista was crash prone, unless you had the bad nvidia driver.

[@Arehexes]

My only main issue when I got my laptop with Vista was a bluetooth bug. Outside of that it ran fine and I never had a major negative experience.

[@amosamwig8394]

zoomer

[@wordart_guian]

@DragonX errors with sound can't be bad can they? like error messages with a dialog and stuff?

[@heimdall1973]

I also (kind of) remember getting a laptop with Vista. Previously I used XP. I had had a glance at it before on other computers and didn't particularly like the visual change of the window frame (or whatever it is called, the part of the window that you use for moving and resizing the window). Anyway, when using Vista, I was disappointed about it lacking some features XP had. (The list is easy to find, and when I looked at it more recently, it brought back memories of said disappointment.) It wasn't as friendly/intuitive as XP. One feature in particular that Vista (sort of) kept that I'd like to mention is repairing the WiFi connection. That's something you want to do when you're connected to WiFi but it doesn't work (something out of sync, I guess). When you ask XP to repair the connection, you see a little box telling you what's going on: disabling WiFi adapter, enabling WiFi, and so on, and usually it works great. When you asked Vista to repair the connection, you just see a box with a generic message (something like repairing the connection) and no clues to where it got to. After waiting, it usually tells you that it failed. If, on the other hand, you manually do what XP does automatically (disable and re-enable the WiFi adapter and let it reconnect) it usually works fine. So Vista sometimes felt like (visually changed) XP with extra steps. Other times it felt lacking. Windows 7 (and what followed with the similar feel, including 10) was even more of a disappointment, and to me 7 to 10 felt like going in the direction from me controlling the computer and the OS to the OS controlling me and the computer. Or maybe OS is at your service, but is becoming increasingly more difficult, disobedient, uncommunicative... XP was a solid worker. Vista was a bit awkward, refusing to do some things and trying to do others differently, being secretive, wearing new ill-fitting clothes, but mostly an OK worker. Afterwards Windows became more rebellious worker with its own bad ideas. It became more difficult to manage them, they tried controlling me more and more, they became more secretive and underhand. They can't follow simple instructions, it's increasingly difficult to ask them to do a straightforward task. I really want to sack this one and take XP on, who, unfortunately, is now retired. So is Vista, who I'd still take on in place of 7+.

[@huntermorgan6177]

Everyone who said Vista was a bad operating system never experienced the HORROR that was Windows ME.

[@Gatorade69]

Exactly.

[@13gherkin]

Just because something else is worse does not mean that it is good. ME was a total shit show, so that doesn't set the bar very high.

[@R1S1NGDRAGON]

I was scrolling to find this comment. I would see the BSOD several times a day with Windows ME... Vista seemed like paradise by comparison.

[@cjmars822]

Facts

[@Max_Mustermann]

True. Vista wasn't too bad, maybe the exception being the constant security prompts which MS dialed back in future OS versions. As for Windows ME, that was probably the least stable Windows OS I ever used. Luckily, Windows 2000 was available right at the time.

[@eugenegrebionkin]

It came pre-installed on my laptop I had when studying in university. The laptop had a dual core cpu and 2 gigs of memory. Vista worked great there and felt like a huge step from xp, I really enjoyed it.

[@LexVanguard2004]

I've got to say, I LOVE the glossy 3D aesthetic found on Vista and 7, the current flat and oversimplified design they've got going on now sucks.

[@namename-mw3sf]

@kpnmn99 vista and 7 can set a video as wallpaper too (live wallpaper), surprise 😆

[@Fox421-s7r]

and that's what window blinds is for

[@mewtwo.150]

The same with iOS iOS till iOS 6 was so awesome!!! Then turned flat and boring

[@Fox421-s7r]

@@mewtwo.150 agreed

[@Icecube095]

@@mewtwo.150 That's the reason why I've downgraded my iPhone 4 and 4s to the skeuomorphic iOS versions :-)

[@JCV11B]

Honestly thought Windows ME was the worse it would literally break its self

[@trobriandstorm]

This, ME is the worst of all time, that thing never was able to last more than a year. POS OS.

[@Planetdune]

I stayed on 98SE till XP..

[@zerodragoone8684]

The worst by far

[@agentburningbutters3655]

@@Planetdune I had an Sony vista computer that had circle buttons on the monitors side (I don’t remember well) and it had vista on it and it was the first OS I had used. This was also the time where minecraft was really old and everyone in my family tried installing it not knowing Java is required, so I had to play some knock offs but there are lots of old games I had played such as turtle obdysy 2 and this cactus cowboy thing but those were just platformers but are quite old from now. It got sold because we were too dumb to realise we could upgrade the computer but that’s how I lost my windows vista computer. In 2021 I got a Veio sony all in one touchscreen computer for 80$ which was almost never used by the owner as he had plenty of computers. So I got it and dumped my windows 10 red predator gaming pc and I had dozens of issues with the computer. So 1 is that it can’t run source games but only 2 that were Half life death match and all the half life 1 games and expansion packs, but if I run games like half life episode 1 or games other than valve they mostly fail but this may be the fact that my computer doesn’t have right system requirement but it turns out that the game works but I can’t see anything unless if I get another computer to remote play into the windows 7 computer. But I did upgrade it to windows 10 after it failing to load simple stuff like settings and how it can’t run 8 bit games. But that made it worser as I think that’s due to the computer having the computer in the monitor as the computer back seems small. And yes I typed all that just for this reply.. Poor me...

[@Lunk42]

Glad they brought that feature back with windows 10 and it's updates.

[@OctoomyYTOfficial]

I had memories about Vista and 7. I can only remember the good.

[@nationsquid]

Same here! I enjoyed Vista's search capabilities and did not really pay a lot of attention to the glaring problems with it at the time. Thanks for watching! :)

[@jasinere35]

im still using 7 its never failed me its actually a revamped version of xp

[@RRJOfficial]

@@nationsquid I had no single problem with Windows Vista. Everybody said it slow (etc.), but I didn't notice anything compared to Windows XP.

[@winindowsdows]

@@nationsquid same same

[@ricktgm6975]

@@RRJOfficial ikr windows xp brought me the most memories

[@BouaphaTheGourdslayer]

"Dude, I got a Dell" laptop for Christmas in 2007 that came with Windows Vista. I was only 14 at the time so I didn't know much about anything, though I did already know about the negative reputation Vista had, probably from my older brother. My first impression was that the Aero UI was gorgeous, I loved the new sound scheme, and I thought the desktop gadgets were charming. I did immediately notice compatibility issues with some older games I tried to install, and I can remember how intrusive User Account Control was. Despite those issues, I have fond memories of using that scrappy little Dell with Vista from 8th grade to high school, dowloading countless mp3s off LimeWire, watching endless KZbin videos, editing my own terrible YTPs with Windows Movie Maker, and playing weird indie and flash games

[@LunarWingCloud]

Hot take: never had issues with Vista. I used it from 2009 to 2012, when I got my first laptop which had 7 installed. I can say for sure I enjoyed my time using it. Definitely not the same is able for me to say about Windows 8. I hated Windows 8.

[@armyofninjas9055]

8.1 was okay. 8 sure sucked tho.

[@LunarWingCloud]

@@armyofninjas9055 that's fair. 8.1 was alright, I used both 8 and then 8.1 and I hated base 8

[@dakshkashyap]

the entire tile theme was unnecessary.

[@Tijuanabill]

I used it all the way up until Windows 10 came out, and only really NEEDED to abandon it then, because key work software I use stopped updating for it. I never had any issues. I ran it on a custom made PC with top quality components, and it could play Warcraft in Ultra mode, at the time I got rid of it, a good while after Windows 10 was released.

[@ZeroInfiniti2]

i feel the same. i did not have issues with vista that made me hate it. but when win 7 came along my laptop ran so much better. i never used 8 and what little i did i hated. win7 was definitely the successor to xp. win 10 isnt bad

[@wakaneut]

While I understand the current "flat" design, I still love Aero more. Hell, I even liked Flip3D. One of the reason I was late to upgrade to Win10 because I still loved Win7 UI (similar UI with Vista)

[@KrazyKupo]

To get around Win10 looking kinda meh there are plenty of overlays you can find online to make it look or act like older systems. Personally got mine looking like WinXp with an old start bar.

[@deadturret4049]

@@KrazyKupo Stardock has a software suite that is absolutely great for doing this exact thing. I use default win10 on my main pc, but for a while I had a laptop running 10 that looked identical to 7. It was wonderful

[@elijahtorres2688]

I feel like Microsoft tried to bring back the Aero vibe to Windows 11 💀!

[@aleksandersats9577]

I like aero a lot too, in fact I got windows sidebar from windows vista working on windows 10, and it's great!

[@hansmitdergans7879]

That's why I kinda like the Windows 11 UI. The dark theme looks really good. Still not as good as Windows Vista looked, but it's a great step to the right direction. Now Microsoft just has to understand what brought them to the position of the leading OS developer and what they are currently doing wrong.

[@theMetallico666]

I loved Vista visual overhaul, but it was very sluggish for me back in the day when I had an old WinXP laptop. Thank goodness XP had a lot of customization options that I managed to have almost every visual update of Vista on my XP OS without sacrificing performance.

[@jgreenberg]

Vista came out in secondary school and I had to use it for school projects and it was definitely buggy but I still really enjoyed using it. It was so clean and futuristic looking to me and I always felt as though it was a bridge to the next OS anyway for some reason, even back then. My dad is a programmer however and he HATED it. So my experience with it was mixed, I'd say.

[@yuriy5376]

My experience exactly back in 2007

[@HollyLetson]

I remember liking Window Vista. I kept wondering why so many people were talking it down, when I rarely had problems with it myself.

[@Dongzzzzzz]

They had shitty systems lol. Never had a problem with Vista.

[@asteroidrules]

@@Dongzzzzzz The real problem is Microsoft released Vista's system requirements long before the feature creep had set in and they weren't going to change them, so they had to make Vista technically run on hardware that just couldn't handle it, unsurprisingly it ran like crap. I have to think this mistake was the inspiration for Windows 11 having artificially inflated system requirements, Win 11 sucks in plenty of ways, but they specifically inflated its system requirements to ensure people don't install it on hardware that it would run poorly on, they're trying to stave off that negative perception. Of course unlike Vista Windows 11 isn't a salvageable OS underneath so it's still going to be hated.

[@Nobody-ge7pk]

@@asteroidrules in windows 11 registry it calls itself windows 10, hkey local machine>software>microsoft>windowsnt>currentversion>KABLOOEY

[@richard35791]

@@Dongzzzzzz 75 percent people back then have shitty system, (outside USA and west Europe)

[@kyleotoole]

The problem was it came pre installed on machines with only 512MB of RAM when in reality, it needed 1-2GB of RAM to run properly. They underestimated the system requirements

[@bessiehardesty1347]

I feel like vista was just unfairly hated on even more than it should of had

[@nationsquid]

I agree! It had its problems, but there were certainly a few that were beyond its control. Thanks for watching! :)

[@morganrussman]

I sort of feel the same. I feel a bit like most of the issue for windows vista was that, I think like linus from techquicky and LMG said, was partly because of those who upgraded their operating system as time went on and didn't upgrade their systems as frequent as the release of the operating system, or you didn't have a decked out system to start with at the time of vista's release.

[@adamtajhassam9188]

my biggest con w Win Vista - was it was a resource hog - Idid like the UI and I still like it far better then Win 11

[@theothercd]

the early build of windows 11 is not final

[@paradoxzee6834]

I remerber back in 2008 people were divided about Vista, some said it just slowed their PC down, others say it was the best OS they had so far. I think the universal hate came after Windows 7 came out

[@_Parth_Rathod_]

i have grown up with vista when you showed the purble place i was like- i know this game, thiis is the game that i have grown up with.

[@mxmln8699]

Saaame, it ran on my first laptop. When I was like 9 I had no issues with it whatsoever. I miss using it

[@petricasarbu1600]

@@mxmln8699 bro why You got three aaa are u not speak english or something like that?

[@mxmln8699]

@@petricasarbu1600 r u serious?

[@petricasarbu1600]

@@mxmln8699 what?

[@seccommasada]

My hardware definitely was not ideal to run Vista, but as a kid who was just getting into the online world, playing old MMOs, and foruming, I loved the sleek glassy look of Vista in contrast to the blocky and industrial XP we'd grown up on. It was pretty common for my OS to stop allowing me to run games for one reason or another, and I did grow to resent Vista for it, but overall, hearing that start up tone, seeing the shiny interface, I'm brought back to the times in my life where my computer was a refuge from the difficulties of adolescence, school, and family drama. As soon as I heard that startup sound, I was transported to another world, and there, I was happy. Thank you, Vista.

[@ElZamo92]

I remember when I “upgraded” my fancy new dual core laptop from XP to Vista…. It was the most PAINFUL experience I’ve ever Hadith that laptop, specially the situation with drivers. None of it’s fancy features worked, like the fingerprint scanner, the web cam, the IR remote, and even some of the ports like the fire wire port it had. And even some basic stuff like the printer drivers were literally nonexistent, so I had to transfer files from my laptop to my dad’s desktop when I wanted to print my homework at home… Man, they crammed so much stuff on that OS that it took 3 years for hardware and drivers to catch up.

[@BillStreetStudios]

I wonder how it's possible that after tons of testing in different devices and conditions they didn't encounter any issues then suddenly when it's released it doesn't work for anybody. The only other possibility is that they tested, the features didn't work and they still released. That or they simply didn't test/tested poorly

[@rayhoodoo847]

I had a similar situation with my HP laptop when upgrading to Win10

[@runed0s86]

They fixed auto driver downloads in late windows 8. Also, the system constantly cached programs and files into ram even if you weren't using it.

[@snip3rm00n]

I honestly cannot remember having a negative experience with Vista. To the contrary, I feel Vista was a pretty competent operating system which was just battered by the negative hype train. Vista's UI was beautiful and quite honestly the best looking UI Microsoft has ever released. Windows 7's UI was similar thanks to Aero making it into 7 but didn't feel the same.

[@Aepigon]

Spot on man. Aero theme, that greenish tint, the icons and the overall look is not surpassed even today. The best looking OS of all times

[@akasection]

Vista had problems because of most common WinXP PC specs at 2005-2006 were 256-512 MB of RAM with single core procie (like AMD athlon and P4). The prebuilt AIO and laptop sure immediately bumps their laptop to 1-2GB, but Intel GMA back then truly sucks (eating 32-128 MB of RAM). It costs a lot. Most average home PC weren't prepared for almost 4x minimum spec jump. My PC when vista was released was just 512MB DDR(1) with Pentium 4 2.8Ghz (+nvidia 6600). I think you can guess how inoperable my PC was when I tried force clean install Vista back then.

[@Dat_Typ]

What do we learn from that? Don't get people hyped Up with a Buch of promises you can't keep, or they'll be -surprise- quite disappointed.

[@rosalinamacarita01]

@@0w3nn me neither

[@ChenLiYong]

Saaaame. I used Vista back then and I feel it’s just fine like when I used XP.

[@seratheeducatedfeline4227]

I grew up on Vista and actually like it more than Windows 10 (which I find a bit too sleek and 2 dimensional).

[@nationsquid]

I could definitely see what you mean by that! Thanks for watching! :)

[@Keldor314]

Yeah, I hated the direction Microsoft went with Windows 8, but at least Windos 10 took a step back in the right direction. Still, Windows 7 was my favorite version (and Vista was basically a beta version for 7)

[@joeroeinski1107]

For an educated feline, windows 7 also has that UI AESTHETIC is orders of magnitudes better as a whole as an operating system in terms of usability and compatibility. It's time to admit that Vista is shits for the birds.

[@bestvideogamer4560]

Finally someone that likes the old windows look

[@Primith12]

Vista alongside with 7 were extremely beautiful OS-s but I liked 7 better. I like Windows 10 too, but I've had far more problems with it than Win7 back in the day. I still have an old laptop running it, dual boot with win10, only the latter has internet access for security reasons. I need to get XP running on it too 👀

[@ArunShankartheRealOne]

I was in college when vista was released, it took a minimum of 1GB of RAM to be usable and atleast a dual core processor. These might seem trivial now, back then it would cost 3 months income of my Dad to purchase such a machine. And games like NFS MW ran faster on XP, so it made no sense to me to use vista.

[@W1ldTangent]

For a time this was (and continues to be when new Windows versions are released) true: the older version typically runs games that come out around the same time as the new one better because the developers haven't had much time to get used to the new quirks or take advantage of newer features. Same thing happens with console generations where you get a game released on both the newest and previous gen platforms, often the older version will be more stable, and may even look objectively better (though this is usually a very subjective comparison).

[@GSG-io8zp]

@@W1ldTangent When has this happened with video games? Next gen versions of games always have better graphics and FPS.

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

@@GSG-io8zp not exactly Ports from gta with more fps will make unstable the game cuz the game is made for only 30fps Also halo 2 from the master chief collection is a graphic mess,just a port from the old game to new gen consoles

[@GSG-io8zp]

@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 There hasn’t been any port of the 3 classic gta games that have had it’s frame rate unlocked apart from an option on PC? I’m a huge Halo fan and the Halo 2 remake is amazing.

[@ArunShankartheRealOne]

@@W1ldTangent That is true, I also remember how they made dx10 exclusive to vista.

[@braddirt]

I don't remember having that many problems with Vista, except some compatibility issues. Other than that it was pretty, and definitely led to the much more stable modern windows we have today.

[@PurblePink8678]

Windows Vista was The INFLUENCE of Microsoft's succes of today simply because Hardware manufacturers have decided that computers need better Hardware and that the current garbage they had at The time Was outdated and obsolete

[@josephmatthewspearsslade8900]

I personally loved Vista over XP; it had a lot of what I’ve always wanted since that OS; not as much trouble in certain aspects, well more in the realm of games, and just a nicer, cleaner OS in general. I personally enjoyed it, and hope to get back to it again.

[@nationsquid]

I agree! I preferred Vista over XP at the time of its release. The search feature was the game changer for me. Thanks for watching! :)

[@reezodiecast]

Wish that Microsoft released Vista as Open Source to the community.

[@jkwacker8225]

I used Vista on my new build in late 2008. I didn’t really have any problem with it and never really understood all the hate. I had top of the line hardware at the time which might have helped. I actually used it up until a few years ago. I’m still getting used to Windows 10. The only Windows I’ve hated with a passion was 8.

[@begley09]

This was me. My rig I had built in 2008 came with Vista and loved it. I had zero issues running it and when I made the upgrade to Windows 7 in 2011 it just felt more polished. I really like Windows 10, wasn't a huge fan at the start but once I found out you can customize the layout it made it a much better experience.

[@erxer1]

I personally really loved Vista. Admittedly, I did get it on a new PC after a few years of its release, but that just shows how much it can improve over time. I only ever had one big issue that was easily solved throughout the whole time I used the OS. Compare that to how I stumble across dozens of problems with Windows 10 seemingly every day, I'd say that my experience with Vista was much better than what other seemed to claim having. I think the reason Windows 7 was so fondly remembered compared to Vista is because of two simple points. The hardware got better so the beautiful Aero theme didn't cause as big performance issues as before and also all the updates that Vista got during its life were packaged to 7, which made it much more stable than Vista on launch.

[@islacsilva854]

I miss the aero, it was so good to see

[@KiryuSeiran]

For me vista was really nice and I expected the bugs, but also how I commented many times on similar videos... Win98 got me PTSD, that windows deleted folders of my school projects at random due to size... I remember crying because my brother sold my win 95 :( to get that piece of s**t... after that I was the one with buying power due to everyone on the family hating win98.

[@edwardclark6731]

windows 11 is out!

[@xlaviation9154]

@@islacsilva854 You can still download the Aero. I mean, not the theme but the beautiful beautiful transparency.

[@JJschannel255]

Yea

[@TharsyanJaderuby]

2:53 I'm just glad that people don't have any issues with Vista's UI, i loved that UI, way back when I was using it.

[@IllusionSector]

I was actually blown away but the blurry window and title bar effect. The idea was eventually stolen by Apple. The most brilliant feature that caught my eye was how the path in Explorer's address bar would elegantly switch from editable text to buttons. Wow!

[@TheLocalLt]

@@IllusionSector huh? If anything Vista stole elements from Mac OS 10, which was at the time very colorful, glossy and shiny

[@IllusionSector]

@@TheLocalLt I was referring specifically to the transparent blurry UI element (occasionally referred to as the shower door effect). Most notably in the OSX, you see it in the launchpad. It was nowhere to be found in the OSX back in the Vista days. _which was at the time very colorful, glossy and shiny_ True, but Windows did not borrow any of that.

[@Abypar]

@@IllusionSector that guy is definetly an apple fan

[@ghost-husband]

Vista is really nostalgic for me because it was on the first computer we had in our house when I was a kid. I never knew it was hated, it was just normal to me. I remember playing Purble Place, those games were the best back then!

[@Leafy17]

8:17 I remember turning on the computer as a kid and hearing that. Needless to say, I just got a huge chill and all those good memories just flooded back to me. Thank you for including the start up sound!

[@nick15684]

I've always had a bit of a nostalgic soft spot for Vista. I liked the aero theme and thought it looked really nice at the time, especially better than what XP had. I don't remember it being particularly slow, but I only started using Vista around or just after the release of Windows 7, and by then I think most of the problems had been ironed out.

[@Keldor314]

Vista wasn't exactly slow on my admittedly high end machine, but it did have some serious problems with programs getting too much processor priority, and the task manager would refuse to close them (or do so only after great delay).

[@wordart_guian]

I used vista RTM for years on a mildly low end 2008 laptop, and I had an excellent experience; I'm pretty sure the problems were not ever in the vista software, but moreso in the 2007 hardware that simply wasn't compatible with vista (or had bad drivers).

[@betacyst9462]

@@Keldor314 If you have an Intel Haswell or newer gen CPU, you've fallen victim to the CPU timing bug

[@rosalinamacarita01]

vista was beautiful, as a kid I used to play on the OS over and over again, I played mahjong titans, chess titans, purple place, etc. It was heaven and I loved the effects and the cristaline theme. sincerely my favorite and best operating system in my opinion, along with XP, 7 and 98.

[@aidanrehe3745]

I love purple place, i used to play it on my grandmas laptop. I completely forgot about untill now.

[@LikeAChameleon]

@@aidanrehe3745 he forgor ☠️

[@aidanrehe3745]

@@LikeAChameleon what?

[@LikeAChameleon]

@@aidanrehe3745 it’s a meme. The reason why I said it is because you misspelled it the way the person who created the meme did.

[@aidanrehe3745]

@@LikeAChameleon oh i didn't even notice the typo lol

[@jesdadotcom]

Vista was "thrown over the wall" without sufficient collaboration with hardware manufacturers. So yes, it did objectively suck. It then got better over time. I remember. I was there.

[@mannmctrash]

You're a Vista Veteran

[@bojinglebells]

no, objective is incorrect when its sucking was conditional; if you had the right hardware Vista was amazing and could provide a far better experience than XP

[@bchristian85]

The "Vista Ready" stickers put on machines that really couldn't run Vista was another factor. Also, OEMs early in the Vista era packed the computers with so much trial software that it even slowed down XP, let alone Vista which the computer could barely handle as is.

[@TheXboxReviewer]

@@bojinglebells that would mean that vista was "subjectively good" not the other way around.

[@bojinglebells]

@@TheXboxReviewer yes, and I never stated that Vista was objectively good, just that it did not "objectively suck"

[@goodgamer1236]

My old school used to have Ms. Vista installed on some PC. I think it was running quite good. I didn't experience any lag or anything bad. I think it's because the PC there had been upgraded in terms of hardware and not only software

[@rileychase6482]

I was so fascinated with Windows Vista aesthetics while I was in high school that I forced our computer to look like it was running Windows Vista even though it was still running Windows XP. There was a program called Windows Vista Theme Pack that replaced all of the Windows XP UI, and it's fun to remember those times. Even though our computer was slow, I was quite pleased with the way it looked; the glass-like windows, the orb start button, the widgets, the icons; Vista's user interface was very stunning to me. Now that I'm an adult, I have a powerful PC running Windows 10, but Windows Vista will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@MisterMichaelVReyes]

I remember when my family's Windows 98 machine bit the dust in early 2007, my mom saved up some money and got us a new computer, which came with Windows Vista. I didn't know at the time that Microsoft had created a new operating system that people did not like. When started up that Vista machine for the first time, we were blown away on what it could do. The Aero theme looked so futuristic and beautiful. We had that PC until 2011, when we finally all got our own computers running Windows 7. I miss Vista because it reminds me so much of my early high school years.

[@Crowens]

Same. Aero on Vista was gorgeous and of really made it feel like a modern and sleek upgrade to the XPs I saw at friends houses or the 2000s I saw in school. I really do miss it, Metro does not compare.

[@nawazeeshali4340]

The purpose of OS is not to be beautiful, go outdoors and watch beautiful scenery if you want beauty, the purpose of OS is to have your programs function properly, XP and 7 succeeded at it, sluggish Vista failed at it. Idgaf about visual effects.

[@Jack-bu3wn]

I never had any issues with Vista, honestly one of my favourite OS of all-time mainly for my child-hood, and so on. The fact that so many had issues, and I didn't, I count myself lucky; visually beautiful but excuted horribly.

[@sevmikkelsen2720]

Windows Vista was the first OS I knew from my home computer, and I loved it to pieces. It was so beautiful, it looked so clean and using it was extremely straightforward. It came with the best pre-installed games, too. It might just be nostalgia talking but I've missed it ever since. Windows 7 was a divine successor, maybe the best Windows of all time, but it saddens me how we've grown farther from the Vista with every version after.

[@tonycap49]

My favorite was the never ending disk defrag, and the moving backgrounds, which were really mp4 movies, eating up half of your system resources.

[@marvelgaming1570]

I still have this vintage memory of playing a game called tales of pirates back in 2007 on vista, best days of my life

[@u0aol1]

I have very fond memories of Vista. The first computer that was actually mine came with Vista, an old HP AiO with a very early capacitive touchscreen. I do think most of the butthurt came from people using older hardware. I went through the whole Windows Vista life cycle with it, installed all the beta versions of Windows 7 which was admittedly much better, but at official release of Win7 HP stopped supporting the display driver needed to run my touchscreen so I was left with lots of bluescreening after that.

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

My Grandmother actually had a PC that ran Windows Vista, and I found it actually worked quite decently with no issues. I have Vista very near and dear to my heart.

[@albinjt]

"Mob Mentality" I loved it 😂

[@nationsquid]

I liked Vista too! Though, I can see where all the criticism for it came from as well. Thanks for watching! :)

[@ash_1419]

@@Rishi-9073 that sucked

[@dimitrz2000]

Every one knows the real Windows OS disasters were Windows ME & Windows 8 But I would be honest , I believe I had used ME OS but I think due to reviews , I didn't use Win 8 ; I was repulsed by the Tile concept of Win8 and the irony is that in Win 10 I ended up prefering tile to traditional start menu 😂 how times change.

[@xeon39688]

Windows 8 wasn't bad imo never had an issue with it

[@stevenevetsky9760]

Windows 8 aint bad. Its still a reskinned win 7. Its just that barely anyone uses touch screen monitors when they overhauled the UI

[@dimitrz2000]

@@stevenevetsky9760 yep the tile was a bit too much of a radical change back then for people who liked the traditional Programs mode/ layout . But when you have to shell out a bomb to upgrade , then such minute things can be a game changer.

[@TheRafark]

“Every one knows the real OS disasters were Windows 8” but you never used it. you’re just repeating what some people say like a parrot. DUH.

[@sjogosPT]

Millenium was not bad as people write.

[@gator_productions]

The Vista/7 sounds are the best ones ever

[@howtoavenge1016]

They are really good. the windows 10 sounds are kind of nice, too

[@armyofninjas9055]

95

[@naydacolunga4992]

But It can't beat the windows xp critical error and exclamation sounds

[@TheLocalLt]

Nah Windows XP startup noise is legendary. Also the error noise

[@matthewpaulargall9102]

The aesthetic of Windows Vista has aged very well. It looks more beautiful than today's operating systems.

[@toreadoress]

Agreed, it's sad because Vista was the most beautiful Windows ever created. Even the side bar with the widgets looked way better than the modern ones and I really hate the blocky style of 8 and later 10. I really miss the DreamScene and the live wallpapers and how easy was to place one. I was one of the few lucky ones who just got a pretty beefy PC for the time so I didn't encounter that many problems with the performance, but I do understand how for most people that would've been pain in the ass.

[@Agnostic_Asi]

I loved Vista. But I had a fairly strong computer back in those days. I remember how I played with all those new features, especially the voice control, that worked really well! Vista will always have a special place in my heart!

[@gilly5809]

Vista is still my favorite looking OS ever. I remember how excited I was for it, but then seeing how poorly it performed on most computers I used it on. Later on with better hardware and service packs, it was great imo.

[@carbonfiber4666]

I'm so glad I was just about 9 y.o kid when Vista appear in my life so I've never faced or experienced any negativity while using it. My parents bought a laptop with Vista in 2008, and we're used it to 2016, unfortunately a laptop just die at this time due mechanical problems. It still my favorite OS so I love to customize my Win10 look like Vista. I want to download a virtual machine and install Vista on it and embrace nostalgia... And yes thank you for the video, I'm very enjoyed it

[@javianjohnson8746]

I grew up on Windows Vista and XP. I will always have nothing but love for both Operating Systems 🙏

[@TheTytan007]

Windows Vista is like definitely in the top 3 of my favourite Windows releases, Microsoft should have spent more time on polishing it

[@nationsquid]

I think so too! It definitely had the potential but it just wasn't used very well. Thanks for watching! :)

[@Keldor314]

Well, they did eventually polish it! We know the polished version as "Windows 7". I don't remember any real ways in which Windows 7 wasn't just Vista, but working as it was supposed to all along.

[@skoda8666]

@@Keldor314 Lmao no. The real polishing was SP2 and platform update.

[@r0ckz]

Me and my friends were teens when it came out and completely missed the negative experiences at the time. We really wanted to replace our XP/2000 installations with Vista - we used our PCs a lot and Vista was a real conversation starter, like a new iPhone would be today. We even used many of those Vista Transformation Packs for XP which I think made our PCs run even worse than Vista itself. I still get why we liked it, when the Glass effect was enabled it looked pretty cool. I eventually only got to use it for about a year until 7 came out and I got a free upgrade disc from Microsoft. It wasn't a big deal to me, because 7 was just more stable and felt like a mix of XP and Vista. 7's updated theme was similar but fits in the less-is-more design trend that's actually still going on today, Vista looks really dated now. I kept using 7 until 2019, since support ended in 2020. Windows 10 is actually still kind of like Vista's style but all the 3D styles are now replaced by flat colors. When I upgraded from Win95 to 2000 to XP (skipped a few), it always felt like a big upgrade in terms of looks/control panel functionality and everything. Vista and everything after that felt like a continuation of the same product/version. I think Windows is a finished project now which is why 10 is the final version.

[@nationsquid]

Thanks for sharing your input! I think you make some very good points, and from what I have heard, Windows 10 is going to be the last version of Windows from Microsoft, and they're just going to keep updating it indefinitely. Although I heard a "big" Windows announcement is being made in late June of this year, so we may just be getting a whole new version of Windows soon, we'll just have to wait and see. Thank you for watching! :)

[@lloyd26]

I might have to stop you right there, because Microsoft *_might_* be releasing Windows 11 in June 11.

[@r0ckz]

@@lloyd26 I heard the rumors a few days after I made this comment, but it's pretty contradicting with what they previously stated. The plan was that Windows 10 was in fact the final version, with users never having to buy/get a new version and only receiving updates from now on. They're releasing new upgraded Windows 10 versions two times a year now and Windows 11 was never to come. But I guess we'll see. I hope that if they really changed their mind it's because they have lots of new features to add.

[@albinjt]

@@r0ckz welcome to the future and we all got to know Windows 10 will be ditched support for consumers on 2025 😒

[@albinjt]

😞

[@supersmashmaster43]

My family had a computer with vista, but I don’t remember there ever being major issues or problems with it. Tbh it didn’t seem that different from Windows 7

[@mikiehill67]

I liked Vista and had no issues with it.

[@iNdepDev]

Vista was great. Within the year it was released I bought a Vista preinstalled VAIO notebook with 4 Gb of ram and with a decent gpu at the time. It was a pleasure to use. I loved it. Vista was my favorite Windows OS all time because it was beautiful, futuristic and actually it performed very well on a hardware really meant for it.

[@boboboy8189]

Windows xp era only got 256mb RAM so when Microsoft jump to minimum 1GB ram, its huge different because back then RAM is pricier than today. I still remember used DDR1 1GB costing 30 usd so nobody want to use vista unless its came preinstalled

[@ChesuMori]

My limited experience with Vista was so bad, I used a dying WinXP laptop for as long as I could until new models were being sold with Windows 7, or whatever the next one was.

[@TX_LoveGame]

I was on XP until early 2009 when I had some major hardware failure and had a local PC repair shop revive my machine, this time with Vista installed. I had a mostly good experience with it and overall liked the look and feel of the UI. Like you said, it's more so that the initial impression of it was so bad that there was just no coming back from it. A big mistake that Microsoft made was that they would put "Vista Capable" stickers on PCs that were barely able to even boot the damn thing, and they would chug hard when trying to run Aero, but it looked ugly as sin without it and didn't even run that much better. Later on, they put some kind of "Premium" sticker on PCs that were actually able to handle the OS without running like a slideshow. My machine was a bit newer - my dad's old job had got it for him in 2008 and it ran damn well for a prebuilt, so Vista ran fine without issue, but yeah the damage to the brand was already done. If I had to make one legitimate complaint about Vista, it would be the bullshit DRM it enforced when trying to record audio. For anyone who doesn't know, if you used any kind of recording software, microphones picked up just fine, but any sound from your system itself wouldn't record, like game audio for example. I'm sure there was some workaround for this, but I had no idea how back then, so the only real solution was to play the game audio through your speakers and have your mic pick that up. You can guess how good that sounded lmao.

[@SillyKola9145]

Windows Vista walked so Windows 7 could run 👍

[@0311Mushroom]

I loved Vista and it worked great. But I also built a new computer to run it on. The biggest problem I found was using it on older legacy systems.

[@mechantl0up]

Imagine if modern MacOS releases were even half as stable, or beautiful, as Vista on its release day… everything is abiut perspective.

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

*[Laughs in Windows 11]*

[@mustafaplayztr7828]

@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 windows supports every single bit of hardware ever made mac cries when it sees unsupported extetnal wifi card lmfao

[@triple_gem_shining]

I remember when vista came out. And depending on your rig and what you were doing it was actually really sleak. But for everything else. Clunky af lol

[@nationsquid]

Absolutely! I personally never ran into issues with Vista when I first started using it. I honestly wasn't very fond of XP at the time so for me, it was a big improvement. Thanks for watching!!

[@TegridyMadeGames]

I had vista almost as soon as it came out to play Halo 2 and Shadowrun likewise. It wasn't all that bad honestly... Basically you HAD to turn off areo theme and run in "low memory mode" - which just disabled areo. I had 2 gigs of RAM at the time but even that wasn't enough to keep the areo theme from crashing every few hours.... The WORST part of it was trying to push a new theme that was about 10 years ahead of its time. Otherwise the UAC was just that... UAC, I didn't mind it, but other people who didn't understand it just saw it as "one more popup on my pc that I dont want" All my friends were computer junkies, like me, and gave me the same superficial excuses to not use it. Mainly that "UAC is annoying and Areo crashes therefore xp is clearly better" even tho they were more then delighted when windows 7 came out which I was probably the last to switch to as I just saw it as vista with the areo theme actually working....

[@sarahts21]

The "Illusion of taking up memory" is something I actually had out with a MS developer when Vista was released. I pointed out that the OSes own widget for memory display (a voltmeter type guage) showed a 2GB laptop using 1.2GB of RAM idling at desktop. It only showed used/unused it didn't quantify how it was being used or what it was being used for and it only showed 1.2 of the 2 installed so where was the missing RAM in the widget? The same widget that Microsoft were having OEM's put front and centre on display machines. Sure you can point out system reserved and IGP and make a valid argument that the machine was saying it had 1.2GB avaliable but the whole way it went about communicating it to it's user was totally ass backwards.

[@JJschannel255]

Ok

[@daftpetike]

I really loved Vista. I think it's still beautiful. My record time without reinstall Windows was 9 months... I used Vista at the time and I only reinstalled because SP2 just came out and I wanted a fresh system 😄 Tried a few Longhorn builds too, it was fun to experiment with those 🙂

[@nationsquid]

I agree! I liked Vista during the time of its release as well. I must have been lucky and not dealt with the issues that were commonly associated with Vista copies that were installed on weaker hardware. Thanks for watching! :)

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

Never installed vista, went straight from xp to 7 😎

[@nationsquid]

Depending on your build, that probably saved you a lot of trouble! :)

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

@@nationsquid yee, but I made the mistake of going from 7 to 8. Then I went back to 7, but then went to 8.1 when that came. Then went back to 7 again. Then went 10, and yesterday my HDD died, RIP

[@pacomatic9833]

@@nsawatchlistbait289 bruh

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

@@pacomatic9833 I know

[@inuraedirisinghe9559]

@@nsawatchlistbait289 RIP

[@mkdsluke]

The only thing I remember about Vista was that it was on at least some of my elementary school's computers (2008 or so). The computers in our computer class had XP after this though, so they might've just dropped any plans of upgrading everything to Vista after experiencing first hand what they were going to spend their money on.

[@MrChezco1995]

I remember we had a laptop with Vista on it and it was great! Vista, given with the right hardware, performs way better than XP in all ways and the Aero theme gives it a pleasingly good visual looks. UAC was somewhat annoying on some cases but it's there for a reason. Also, that startup sequence showing up before logging in is just nostalgic af!

[@nationsquid]

User Account Control has definitely improved over the years, and it arguably is a great feature that was included in Windows, but yes, it was quite annoying on Vista. Luckily Microsoft has had so much time to make it better, and it is a lot more capable at doing its job now. Thanks for watching! :)

[@EpicB]

I wasn't very old when Vista came and didn't have much firsthand experience with it. I used it a little on someone else's computer but never owned a Vista machine myself so I never got to dig into all the bad stuff. I otherwise ended up skipping straight from XP to 7, which really wasn't all that different from Vista. Even if Vista was good if you had the right hardware, it was definitely a misstep. It also doesn't help that SP2 was released only half a year before 7.

[@Keldor314]

UAC really is an important feature regarding offering some level of protection from the worst viruses and malware and general user screwups, but Vista just had too many cases where the UAC would ask the user for permission, and so it was rather annoying. It's all about balance, and I also think UAC was better balanced in later versions. Performance wise, it was fine on my computer, except for a few edge cases where it would become unresponsive. These at least were fixed over time, and eventually it all led pretty smoothly into Windows 7.

[@tarikrandom7535]

Vista worked fine for me

[@Thatguy101987]

Vista had its problems but wasn't bad, especially in the later part of its life. But it doesn't compare to the garbage fire that Windows ME was.

[@txe1nd]

Windows me was not that bad It give restore point which is a very useful future

[@Sammy-iw9en]

Logi Master I don’t think you ran windows me for long periods of time. Windows me tried to separate dos from windows and for some reason the drivers on me became so unstable that it always crashed. I ran multiple clean installs of me and always had issues. I also ran clean installs of 98se and guess what, it hardly crashed.

[@Thatguy101987]

@@lukewatson059 Nope, no bandwagon effect, I used it and suffered with it for 2 years. I had the full version my dad gave me so I never did an upgrade. I had driver issues, slow performance, BSOD consistently, no DOS mode, and incompatibility with newer software as XP was being rolled out. I finally got fed up with it, and after l got my first part time job, I saved some money and bought XP.

[@Sammy-iw9en]

Thatguy101987 there was dos mode in ME but you had to exit windows to start dos. Pretty much it was like using a boot disk without actually using a boot disk

[@MaruAngelo-bg4vm]

Because SP1 and SP2 fixed most RTM problems.

[@protoretro1290]

I remember and have run many development builds, There was NO consistency. Every build was drastically different.

[@Wowmusicable]

The reason I didn't like Vista was because it was so slow, it took up much space and certain things took very long to load. I remember that circle that just kept spinning when you waited for something to load or to be finished.

[@Mr.Verethron]

In Greece we call them Windows "Svista" which means Windows "Uninstall them"

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

bruh

[@I_love_miku39]

@@justinianthegreatandnerd6377 Not bruh

[@rolandchristensen5889]

Back in my childhood I had a nice Windows XP desktop with 2 GBs of memory, I upgraded it to Vista and it was the greatest thing I had ever seen (I still use Windows 7 today)

[@dstinnettmusic]

I remember Vista pretty positively tbh. I was a kid at the time so I never had to do real work on it, I just thought it looked really nice.

[@maliciousbugman]

Vista was the OS on my first self-owned computer when I was in my early teens so I have a soft spot for its aesthetic touches (I've even made sure to change most of the system sounds to Vista's with every computer I've owned since, save for making the startup sound the Win95 one). It wasn't QUITE as bad as the horror stories of the time but even at that age I knew it wasn't up to par with XP on a functional level.

[@seven7000_]

Man, Windows vista gives me *good* memories, i grew up with it and never really minded the bugs, after all i had none (Think i had SP1/2. Thanks for sharing the history of vista, i really like it :D

[@seven7000_]

I'm also glad you are the one among millions that like vista, and how good it was. Thanks for sharing this history.

[@nationsquid]

Thank you so much for watching! Yes, I actually did enjoy Vista myself when I was first using it. I have more content coming your way soon! :)

[@scratchpad7954]

When I upgraded my old Compaq Presario C769US laptop to 7 (Home Premium for x86 as the version of Vista it shipped with was also Home Premium for x86), the installation DVD was also for Service Pack 1. I didn't buy the x64 version since the BIOS revision had a RAM cap of 2 GB, meaning that it was pointless to install the 64-bit version as I would have had to run a clean install.

[@rubengivoni961]

WHY WINDOWS 7 BETTER?

[@seven7000_]

@@scratchpad7954 I also had a laptop at the time i ran vista. It died from being in the rain, well i have good memories of InkBall, Purble Place and Need for Speed.

[@JoloNavarro]

I have good experiences with Vista, came preinstalled with my mom’s dell laptop way back.

[@fireproximity4225]

13:09 woah I forgot all about that cake game, 11 year old me played it all the time until I learned about GBA and SNES emulators

[@matthewb5364]

That "Welcome" chime in the beginning, plus Inkball and Purble Place, sure brought back memories!! I was in 3rd grade, I believe, when we upgraded from our old Win98 machine to Vista. We had the Core 2 Duo and 2 GB of RAM. It was pretty incredible in the beginning. I think we had Service Pack 2 or 3, so likely we were lucky enough to wait till after the worst was fixed. That computer did languish eventually. The sound glitched out and not even upgrading, replacing, and buying an external soundcard could help. It might have been user error, though... My parents had not one, not two, but THREE antivirus programs, and they probably fought a devastating war of attrition on that poor machine.

[@omerigon]

Vista was the future at that time. I really enjoyed the UI, it was impressive. I do not have a bad memory of this OS.

[@CarlTheQuaker]

I used to have a Windows Vista system and it actually ran pretty well for what I needed it for. I did have it custom built and obtained it in 2009 though so that might be why.

[@nationsquid]

Makes sense! If your specs were decent for the time, Vista more than likely ran just fine. Thank you for watching! :)

[@shayanbilal5638]

2009 was the time when windows 7 was just launched nd was new

[@chrits3396]

Imagine updating your OS only for your expensive printer to be rendered into a brick because there weren't any drivers for the OS yet.

[@VAFranky]

Omg you had to install stuff with “compatibility mode” and select exactly which version of windows the driver was for when you installed something. I remembered having that problem what a nightmare. You had to select like Windows XP service pack 2. Even selecting service pack 1 wouldn’t work sometimes. It was a nightmare, the average PC user had no chance.

[@MephistoDerPudel]

@@VAFranky I also remember that. You could mostly just use XP drivers, you just needed to trick them into thinking being on an XP machine.

[@MJN_SEIFER]

I got Vista in 2008 at the earliest (as that was when I got my own place and a new computer with it) and I *loved* it. It never had any of the problems that I heard anyone talk about, in that it ran fast and it never seemed to have a problem doing what I wanted it to do (no more than any other system I'd used anyway) - I'm even between it and XP on what my favorite system is (though it's probably XP as I may be able to pin point what I liked about it better.) I realize that as it was 2008, it had probably been fixed by then, and I likely just missed the problems with it, but when I used it I honestly couldn't see why it was so hated, and even missed Windows 7, because I was perfectly happy to stay with Vista until I absolutely had to let go of it. In fact, Vista was pretty much the last time, nostalgically or otherwise, where I even cared what system I was using - these days, I have to actually check what I have, and I'm not sure if anything about my current system really stands out to me in a nostalgic sense... I couldn't even tell you what my start up and shut down sounds sound like, yet when I heard Vista's on this video, I felt a fondness for it, as I'm sure I did back then. So yeah, I had a good time with Vista... I'm not sure just yet what it was specifically, but I did.

[@JJschannel255]

Ok

[@AnonYmous-si6nj]

My biggest gripe with Vista was the obnoxious security implementation. It felt like the operating system just seized control.of itself every step of the way, and it made it feel like my computer wasn't mine.

[@georgejob2156]

Likewise,I got it removed and XP installed instead, it was a pain ..

[@leogama3422]

Do you think "your" computer with a comercial OS is yours?

[@Reed_Peer]

If you attempt to run something that requires permission as a standard user, you need to enter admin password instead of just "Yes" and "No" buttons

[@habokhari73]

From my experience, Vista’s downfall was it’s bad performance. I remember it performed badly even on new hardware too. I remember being quite optimistic about Vista before it came out but that changed when we started purchasing Desktops with Vista. If it wasn’t so bad, we wouldn’t have been so desperate to move of it. Vista looked and felt amazing, compared to XP. I loved Windows Aero. Just wished it wasn’t laggy.

[@zeezoaintbald]

I remember a long time ago when windows 7 was released I would go to the paint app and show my dad some drawings that I did of a car, nostalgia comes.. now I'm a pc nerd

[@phoenixman8569]

actually i did not mind it, what i really did not like was the O.S that came after win7, O.S " WINDOWS 8 "