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Vista had some launch bugs that were horrendous.

Beyond that it was a solid operating system and one of the better Windows releases.

Most people just had shit computers, combined with "group think" regarding it's quality.

Vista64 on a moderately good system with a proper amount of RAM was fantastic for it's time.

> Vista64 on a moderately good system with a proper amount of RAM was fantastic for it's time.

Well yeah, a big part of the problem with Vista was the enourmous increase in resource usage compared to XP, which many PCs sold with it were not ready for. That hardware now has enough brute force to make it work doesn't really mean it is not still needlessly inefficient.

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