• Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    Unpopular opinion: Windows peaked with Vista.

    Vista had its troubles, but that was mostly due to drivers, which aren’t 100% on Microsoft. There was also performance issues, but I think some of that was due to underpowered hardware…

    Once the Service Packs came out and the drivers matured, vista was stable, easy to use, and introduced a bunch of good features.

    Everything past vista has been stupid and non sensical. They constantly change things, then have to roll back.

    I have to use windows 11 at work, it’s terrible with weird bugs and performance issues. The funniest thing is my work issued me a high powered surface branded laptop.

    Microsoft can’t even blame the issues on any other vendor, it’s a 1st party device, windows should be the best on surface devices. Especially given they have been making them for years and years

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      Windows 7 was up-to-date Vista with a new start menu and a different name and people absolutely loved it from the start.

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Vista era was when they were working on new driver models, graphics APIs, filesystem, a new shell, etc.

      Sure most of them ended up sucking or didn’t ship at all, but at least they were trying to improve the core of the OS.

      Since then it’s been 100% driven by marketing and adbusing their users.