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I thought the CPU meter was a speed meter of the computer, so I always wanted to make it 100% as a kid.
king shit
Wdym, yours wasnt at 100% all the time? :0
rip cpu
@@NicuMihai when i booted it up it was around 60%, when i opened chrome tabs it got higher so i opened so many the cpu died
@@haisuri rip brothr
I remember back in the day on my Windows XP machine downloading skins to make it look like Vista and thinking I was the shit.
WindowBlinds, with the "neOS" skin.
@@Furious321 I'm 24 minutes late. It was a hell of a time. We customized everything. Windows, Winamp, and anything that supported skins. Good times.
Everyone took their desktop screenshot to show off online
Vishal Gupta's VG24-7 was a godsend.
I did the same and storage icons looked amazing
When my mom passed last year, I inherited a old computer she hasnt used in years. A dell inspiron 530 running Vista. I decided last night to see if I could get it going and see what's on it. I'm so glad I did. Hundreds of pictures she had saved on it. Alot I've never seen before! Besides a dead cmos battery, it just fired up an ran fine. I put another 2g of ram in it I had laying around, got the wireless card working, put a working internet browser on it and mess with it last night till 3am. I literally told my wife to trash it 6 months ago, so glad she didnt!
☺
the fact that some madlads got modern Web browsers working on Vista with extended kernel
as someone who has lost a countless number of photos because of carelessness, thank god you found those.
@@kamo7293 yes I was very lucky
I acquired a Dell Inspiron 530 last year with a Core 2 Duo that was being thrown away. I threw a cheap SSD, extra RAM and a used GT 610 in it (had these parts laying around, but combined cost would have been around £40 UK if I'd had to buy them), and it ran Windows 10 absolutely perfectly. Pretty good for what was at that point a 12 year old computer. We gave it away to someone who needed it for their kids during the various lockdowns of 2020.
I was 12 years old when Vista launched, and as a kid who didn't care or know about any technical faults in the OS, I always really liked Vista. In fact, both XP and Vista are incredibly nostalgic for me. Playing World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade on the family PC with Vista on it, that bubble screensaver. Just everything about the design was really pretty. And I don't recall my parents complaining too much about it. It was a good time.
I was 7 years old when Vista launched and I feel the exact opposite about it. I still remember the constant program not responding screens and how it felt like the operating system was trying it's very best to make you miserable. I only had it on my own laptop (bought in 2010 I think) and with the older family computer running xp working way better it really left a horrible impression.
same here, in fact, I hated Windows 7 at first when my Vista PC broke. I even bought a Vista PC just for nostalgia
I didn't hate it at the time. My family just used it to do standard stuff like making word documents or browsing the web which it did just fine. I didn't even know it was disliked until much later.
@@NotASummoner weak pc
I was -2
I actually prefer the glass look of Vista/7 to modern retro flat design.
It's like a window, how they made tabs and stuff look like glass.
That glassy look is coming back, just in a way more modern and clean way.
@@hirnfaser7245 really?
@@hirnfaser7245 source?
@@CNETech well, I didn't mean the outdated mid 2010s glossy theme that windows 7 had (thankfully it's gone). But upcoming design trends aren't completely flat anymore. Take a look at project neon (this was some time ago and it's slowly getting implemented. 8:20 is an example of that). MacOS also has a lot of apples known gaussian blur + transparency stuff, it's everywhere in the system.
2007: Aero is beautiful but my computer is too weak 2018: Computers are incredibly powerful but there is no Aero today
Blame the whole "mobile first" trend. Microsoft wants to bridge the gap between mobile and desktop and a resource-intensive desktop environment would not help in any way.
You can use custom themes
there is still windows 7 today lol
There's fluent design now and it's lit
Lel. But actually there is a predecessor of that which they called Fluent Design. It's got similar blur effect and it is slowly being implemented more into the shell than Aero was (though Aero when released was already have consistent UI than it is currently at Windows 10, which is still in-progress). It was gone during Windows 8.X, or at least more like disabled since Aero elements technically exist even in Windows 10. They just became flatter on Win 8.X and less flatter on Win 10.
I mean, the main reason nobody talked about Windows system requirements from Windows 7 to 10 is that they barely changed since Vista. On the Japanese image board 2chan, "XP-tan" - A manga personification of the OS - was often depicted with an empty rice bowl with "memory" written on it. She was considered resource-hungry and yet Vista required SIXTEEN times more bytes of RAM. No wonder it left such a bad first impression. Also, not having drivers ready on day one of a massively delayed OS release is such an Nvidia move.
ok
I had zero issues with Windows Vista. I had a mid-grade system that had way more than the basic requirements for the OS. Maybe I just had the right combination of hardware, or maybe I was using peripherals that had updated drives; I'm not sure. Regardless, I never had Vista crash constantly and I was able to run everything I needed with a new pretty OS. I never understood how so many people had a problem with it, because I thought it was pretty decent. Also, as you said, when I ungraded to 7, it felt very similar to Vista with a new theme.
Same, after I went Vista, I never wanted to go back to XP!
We'll, you got lucky b/c everybody I knew had nothing but problems with Windoze Wasta! The features that ultimately turned out to be good in Win 7 were crudely and badly implemented, and basically Windows users were expected to be beta testers for all of them.
The fact you had a built machine made a difference. A guy I was going to school with at the time also loved it and had an insane built computer. He also adored Vista. The problem ultimately was that if you didn't have good hardware, the OS was horrible. I worked in remote support at the time and would cringe because SO many people who had Vista were running it with the minimum requirements for the OS.
Seriously windows 10, 11 and 8 are way worse.
@@joelpichette - no, Windows Vista was a complete shitshow from start to finish, even with a PC supposedly built for it like my ex-wife's last Sony VAIO laptop. Windows 7 and 10 were good - stable OSes where M$FT worked out the kinks in Vista and 8.
That intro - ad transition was smooth AF 10/10
My Instant Search this has to be sarcasm
hair stood up
agree
THATS FUCKING INTRO....WHO WANNA HEAR IT ANYWAYS...
Don't know about smooth, definitely one of the best though
It’s basically just a windows 7 beta.
Beta's a little bit generous. Let's go with Windows 7 pre alpha.
@@SirCaco beta. Windows 7 looks nearly the same as vista. Like it or not. (hard to swallow pill)
@@PaulRakoczi I'm sorry for the confusion, I wasn't talking about the way it looked.
@@PaulRakoczi I'd go with pre-alpha. Vista has higher system requirements than 7 cause Vista is a resource hog using twice the amount of processors than 7. I agree with Sir Caco, for someone who's actually tried both.
@@PaulRakoczi looks, not functions. windows vista is the second worst windows released after millenium
Can I just say out of all of themes windows has experimented with, I love the look of vista more than 7. It just has that calming yet punchy colors that really grew on me
The taskbar is much prettier than Windows 7. I love the glass windows but the see through taskbar in 7 is ugly to me.
4:22 I remember seeing Monitors, Yes, Monitors shipping with 'Works With Windows Vista" Stickers.
My keyboard had those stickers Designed for Windows XP Compatible with Windows Vista Works with Windows 7
Ayy my monitors have those stickers
My old monitor had that sticker
What....... _monitors?????_ Now _this_ is news to me!! 😳😳😳
Microsoft in 2008: Windows Vista "The Mojave Experiment" Apple in 2018: macOS Mojave
Vista's Movie Maker, was one of the best, easiest to use, "beginner" video editing software out there. Yeah, wmv only, limited resolutions and features, but it was incredibly simple and intuitive and most importantly preinstalled.
@@terryrudford5134 copied
Apple started naming their OSs after well known areas, such as Yosemite and, of course, Mojave.
funny enough Mojave the macOS iteration turned out pretty great
apple stole
Me: (Downloading Steam as a kid) *Vista*: Are you sure you want to download this? Me: Sure *Vista*: Are you sure about that? Me: Yes *Vista*: Are you sure that you are sure? Me: Yes *Vista*: Well, we wont let you because it's a virus. Me: What?
Seems like they are pushing games for windows live
I had Steam on vista, I don't remember having this issue...
John r/woooooosh
hahahhaha
@@Windows-nt9ts I'm beginning to get really annoyed at whooosh my. Especially when people use it wrong, like you.
I will always love Vista purely because of nostalgia, this was the first OS I ever used on my grandpa’s PC.
same as me, until i fed up and install windows 7 due to discontinue support on most (esp browsers make it unusable). I can reinstall vista anytime whenever i want in my grandma laptop
First OS? When did I get old 😂
would you like to run a survey ? also, the computer shall reboot in 10 minutes...
I loved Windows Vista! It was a true game changer after the old XP. I never understood why people complained about it, although I only played games on it. With their innovation they should have stopped at Windows 7. It was the best out of them for me personally. Since Windows 8 all the garbage came with every release. After a new install you have at least 200 applications from which u won't ever use more than 10.
Win2k is where they should have stopped
Sometimes its easier to make a new os than support sn old os
People complained because their computer isn't meant to run windows vista (truth be told, many computers do not meet minimum requirements in 2006/07)
That beginning is one of the only things on this channel that actually looked like it was shot with a RED
Sharky Sharklops it’s the black bars bro 😂 CiNaMaTiC
? Clearly colour grading and different lighting were what made the look.
Hey man if you could buy a couple of REDs and use it as a tax write off you sure the fuck would.
It's not the camera, but lighting that truly makes a difference
I love how bad the color noise and patterning is in that scene. Geez guys you can't invest in Neat Video Denoiser?
One major factor missed was that Vista was at the forefront of the 32-bit to 64-bit transition. Almost everyone was using 32-bit XP, and while MS released an x64 edition of XP Pro in 2005, almost nobody used it. Vista was out just at the time PCs with 4GB or more of RAM started being sold in consumer and business PCs, and running a 64-bit Windows because required. However, 64-bit drivers for a lot of hardware simply didn't exist, and took a while to come out for existing hardware, if at all. Windows Vista 32-bit could use the XP drivers, but Vista 64 couldn't. So a lot of people brought home new PCs, pre-loarded with Vista 64, to find that their existing printers and other peripherals didn't work on them. This also affected a lot of older programs, which may be only 16-bit. Vista 32 could run 16-bit programs, but Vista 64 couldn't. So a lot of "legacy" software, especially in the enterprise space, was left running on XP PCs. By the time Windows 7 was released, the transition to 64-bit was largely complete. A lot of 64-bit drivers existed at this point, and people were more likely to have gotten rid of any older hardware/software that would only work on 32-bit Windows. So Vista weathered the brunt of the "growing pains"of the 64-bit transition, and Windows 7 got to be released and used without a lot of people complaining about their older hardware/software "not working."
Amen
On top of all that, anyone holding on to old software could use the Windows 7 compatibility mode to run it, although that resulted in mixed outcomes. Really though, anyone still using 16 bit software that wasn't a game could run it on a virtual machine of XP or even 98.
Been forced back to Win 7 recently, on it as I type, It's not Vista, obvs, but it's better than 10. I'm not looking forward to going back to 10. In fact, I might even try one of them Starter Linuxes, see if they're any good.
I used Xp64 for a long time. It was great. I was basically the stability of server 2003 with the XP64 bit OS, and I had zero problems with it.
There are so many hardware reasons that made Vista come off worse than it was. Comparing the cheapo supermarket PCs I had for XP SP2 and Vista, it was stepping from a P4 Celeron with 512 MB RAM to a dual core Core-derived Pentium with 3 GB. The Pentium still holds up today in an emergency and runs Windows 10 just fine while the P4 is practically unusable. The step from having cheap laptops as fast as two-year-old high end desktops means that the upgrade experience was very different from earlier versions. On the other hand, it means the new Vista-derived OSs hold up much better on new hardware. XP was running fairly well then but doesn't do any better on newer hardware whereas Vista/7 can still take advantage of the latest hardware.
4:02 reminds me of new windows 11 hardware requirements
I actually really liked it. I got it after Service Pack One though so most bugs were ironed out. But it really was a huge leap forward from XP
"OS full of bloat" they have improved very much in Win10, and by that I mean they have filled it with a lot more bloat.
And spyware. Don't forget the MS spyware.
True
@@TexMex421 karen
The European digital rights organization (EDRi) sums up Windows 10's 45 pages of terms and conditions by saying "Microsoft basically grants itself very broad rights to collect everything you do, say and write with and on your devices in order to sell more targeted advertising or to sell your data to third parties" -That's spyware lol.
@@TexMex421 thats not what telemetry is for . but your a karen so you probally wouldnt want to know
"Was Vista that bad?" "Yes. And no. Which together make yo, because, yo man, for real" Is this a Vsauce or LTT video?
Yes
YO
No. And yes. Which together make... NES ???
@@lolikawaii5865 or NOS
It's an LTT video... or is it?
The intro is a true masterpiece, i think they should make a movie out of this lol
I remember feeling about vista "i prefer how searching worked in xp" and having no other complaints. So i was always abit confused by people saying it's bad. But i guess it makes sense if it worked differently depending on your hardware
Listen... my main issue with Vista was that you could literally delete the recycle bin. I definitely wasn’t the only one at the time who accidentally got rid of the entire recycle bin when all you wanted to do, was empty it.
Where tf does it go tho
@@m1co294 the recycle bin obviously smh
@@mainframehacker I think you mean the recursive bin
you can always go into desktop settings and unhide it tho
but it was easier than going in desktop icons and disabling it (you can tick the recycle bin to restore it from the recycle bin)
You forgot the most important thing. VISTA CAME WITH 3D CHESS!
King0Jingaling i used to play it all the time Inb4 i got minecraft running at 10-15fps
Simon Aarekol f for respect.
AND MAHJONG AND INKBALL AND PURBLE PLACE true classics vista came with everything.
Purble Place for me hahaha and 3D Pinball and MS Paint on XP
And with bluescreen...
I'm still running Windows 7 ... and I actually liked Windows ME. I still remember the first time I upgraded to 7 from Vista and I was like "*gasp* They've perfected Windows!"
I remember when my parents both got new laptops that had Vista on them. I thought it looked really beautiful. I was only like 8 at the time, but as far as I can remember, they didn’t have problems with it. In contrast, I also remember when my mom got her next new laptop which came with windows 8 and we could hardly figure out how to use it 😅
Windows 8 is the worst! Vista's problem was hogging up CPUs and lack of drivers!
"yes ...and no. Which makes a yo" ~Linus Techtip
Ha ha
Linustian
lmao
I laughed so hard on this
OMAGGHUF
Vista's Movie Maker, was one of the best, easiest to use, "beginner" video editing software out there. Yeah, wmv only, limited resolutions and features, but it was incredibly simple and intuitive and most importantly preinstalled.
Heck, I got the best grade in a high school project thanks to that movie maker
Hell yes, when they removed the timeline I kinda died inside
yes, thank you windows movie maker for the countless edgy naruto and one piece amv's
THIS! I loved Vista once service pack 2 was released. I used vista from 2007-2011. I liked everything about it. Windows 7 felt like a much more polished version of it. People call me crazy for saying Vista was not that bad lol
It is easy to use, and it still works in fine Windows 10...I think it is a part of Windows Essentials 2011? It's not wmv only, but wmv definitely provided the best compression/quality short of using handbrake... But there are lots of free, professional grade video editors out there now of all skill levels. Da Vinci Resolve is free and now arguably better than Premiere Pro if you want to really edit video...I found it easy enough to move from Movie Maker to full time use after just a few hours of using it, though it's deep enough you could spend years learning all it can do.
I remember my parents buying a Vista computer the same year Vista was released. I remember being in awe with all the UI and features it had compared to XP. One day the system got corrupted and we ended up switching to XP. It felt like a transition to stone age, but I realized just how much faster the PC was in XP vs Vista
XP is faster but Vista is nicer to look at
@@mustasheolll2020man in my machine the vista is faster
@@mustasheolll2020the only windows beat the vista in my computer is the 2000
I, personally, NEVER had a problem with Vista. It did everything I needed to do and didnt give me too much hassle. I was also anywhere from 9 to 13 when I was using it and im 24 now. But everyone else I know of in my age range that has used vista, HATES it, and I truthfully dont get why.
because it launched incomplete and ran like shit on the computers it was supposed to run on.
"After this word.. from our sponsor" Me: *tap tap tap tap tap*
Mood.
only mobile users would understand this..
@@DanyPeter nah i tap to the right arrow key as well
Wow. You skip the video. Thanks for letting everyone know. This is such a dick move.
@colin3ds sometimes yes. But good god imagine how douchey that sounds. Them: make a video with a lot of effort put into it from multiple people People like op: haha look I'm going to skip this thing you've created and then post about it for likes Nobody's saying you can't skip I'm just saying like, don't be fucking rude about it. Like, literally telling them you're skipping their content? What, do you not like it? Do you not want them to get sponsors? Cause that's the message they get when they see this. It's just so rude.
My most favorite intro yet. The way they zoom in on linus' face when they mentioned "Vista"... Pure gold . Sure made me lmao.
I agree 100%
agreee best intro yet
Wow, never had a highlighted comment before. Thanks LTT, means a lot guys. Cheers!
vista and 7 just bring back fond memories of middle school, early KZhead and interesting internet culture that seems forgotten these days
Coming here after all the Windows 11 confusion, and compared to the requirements it takes to get 11 running, Vista doesn't seem like Hell anymore.
"So, was Windows Vista really that bad?" Linus: *Yes and No together makes the YO*
yesn't
so its yes
Nes
Yo
Or nes
Windows 7 is Windows Vista with all the problems fixed.
@@nicka8618 worth it
AyYYYYYY BIIIINNNGOGOOOOOO
@Dindu Linux sucked back then for the average user and Macs were $1000usd. I think most people can wait a couple minutes for half the price. Go make a hot pocket and come back.
@Olleke Bolleke Because you probably have a new system with an ssd. Back then it took my PC 5 minutes to start Vista and 7, about 3 to start XP, and when I switched to 8 it wasn't even a minute.
and unfortunately, a few features tucked away to never be seen again
Try the Ultimate Version it had the video loop feature for the desktop. I miss that feature. Motherboards like my Asus Strix have similar style of wallpapers but not like the Vista Ultimate Version. You could put any video loop as your desktop. I have 143 of the loops I downloaded and saved on my backup drives. They were called Vista Dream Scenes(WMV file type) and found in the wallpaper section only on Ultimate. Be happy to share them with you.
The production effort in the opening scene was next level.
My parents laptop, the first computer I really used, had Vista, so it holds a soft spot in my heart.
Same but mine was a desktop pc
Same but mine was made by a company that was shut down the same year of the release.
Same
@@ragemamba2754 compaq?
@@Archivesrayy nah it was from fujitsu siemens, but my dad once had a compaq running xp and i have no idea where it went.
I was in high school when Vista changed to 7. I remember loving XP and finding Vista janky, and then seeing Windows 7 come out and feeling it was Vista with bug fixes. 10 felt like 8 without the shit full screen start menu.
lol, win 10 still has the full screen start menu if you enable it and I personally love and use it.
You can actually, re-enable the full-screen start menu in Windows 10
XP, in it's day, WAS totally the business. Lean and fast and not remotely bloatware.
Windows 7 feels like an outdated version of windows vista
I like windows to this and still use it
That production quality of the intro though.. *chef's kiss*
With the new features of Vista, criticism has surfaced concerning the use of battery power in laptops running Vista, which can drain the battery much more rapidly than Windows XP, reducing battery life. With the Windows Aero visual effects turned off, battery life is equal to or better than Windows XP systems.
The good thing about having a high end pc in 2008, hardly had any problems with windows vista ever
Ya
Same thing here! I ran it on a Phenom X6 1090T in 2010 and it was sooo nice
Riley did an awesome job on the intro narration
1 thing that I'd like to know a replacement program or feature name for was the ability to save different desktop/ program setups as workspaces & freely switch between them like cellphone pages. I didn't have use for it at the time but I'd love to have access to that feature now.
I admit I loved the look of vista, it was such an upgrade on XP which was amazing at the time.
Shame newer versions look like horse shit
XP with Paradise or Zune theme
I honestly didn't care for it. It seemed like a lot of unnecessary stuff. I'm not even sure what the point of transparencies is other than to try to look futuristic. It added no functionality and just hurt weaker systems.
@@InfernosReaper The transparency alone was a 'step forward' for me, I was around 11 when it came out so it looked futuristic at the time and I personally loved playing with the widgets. It's mainly nostalgia cus it was a pain to use, but it's kinda fun remembering playing with all the compatibility settings. - Shows how fun my childhood was I guess.
I was an adult when Vista came out, but I suspect even 11 year old me would've been like "what's the point of this?" Then again, 11 year old me was use to the slow, clunky UIs of Windows 9x and System 7.x operating systems of the 90s.
not as bad as Windows 8, the operating system that couldn't decide if it was mobile or desktop urrrggghhh
Windows 8 was not good, but 8.1 was awesome and reliable
I still run 8.1 on my gaming rig. Had a terrible experience with 10 at launch. Rendered my laptop unusable. Its better now but I've missed the free update window now.
@@TheStuntastik Don't upgrade to Windows 10, it's bloated asf.. Windows 8.1 is still awesome even today! I've got the same shitty experience than you with W10, in 2016, one fucking bsod per day..
@@sheppardpat47 Actually, the "Embedded" version of Windows 10 (the one that works on ARM and RISC chips) is pretty lightweight, and if you're happy to move entirely into the "new world" of UWP apps (what we used to call "Metro" or "Modern UI" apps) then it's pretty snappy, and functional too. It's the people hanging on to classic Win32, and particularly the x86 version, apps which bloats Windows today. Most Linux / Unix, even Mac OS Mojave have dropped support for 32-bit applications these days. If development is active, the app can be rebuilt for x64 from source with little to no change at all. If not, you probably shouldn't be using it on a machine exposed to an internet connection. The native x86 version of Windows 10 isn't *too* flabby on disk, but it's big enough that you don't get much memory left from your maximum 3.5Gig. (unless you have an x86 system which will boot UEFI and use PAE properly, and they're few and far between)
lol.. Windows 10 is better than the hybrid trash windows 8 and 8.1 Windows 8 is already abandoned and Windows 8.1 still works fine.
I just remember waiting ages every time I started my laptop for yet more updates and security fixed. It was almost daily.
2:32, I NEED THAT XP BLISS WALLPAPER
Really? I thought Windows ME was the worst OS. I really liked Vista.
I don't even remember dogging vista. ME was the butt of all jokes.
@@BRad-mn5pk for reals. I remember day 1: booted the computer, illegal kernel execution, EVERYTIME I BOOTED. Also, tons of other illegal executions, incompatibilities, and it made me want to go back to Win 98 SE. To this day, I have no idea what was wrong, but I hated ME for failing to work...
@@luja805 OUTDATED!! Windows 98 is no longer a secure platform.
@@luja805 I've heard complaints about ME but yours is the first I've read stating why. Personally, I never had any issues with ME and always wondered why it was hated. Edit: I had Vista Pro and Vista Ultimate...no problems there either. What made me angry was that it seemed like I only had Vista for about a year and Win 7 was released.
You don't know the pain of windows CE
It doesn't matter cause the human ear can only smell 4mb of software.
Bro....
Bro....
Yeah, ikr. Why do people get this soooooo wrong!? 😤😡😡😠😤😤😡😠😤😤😡😡👿👿😠😡😤
My nose can smell 70GBs of mouse dpi
You mean only 4 mb of hardware?
What's that monitor model on second 0:58?? looks awesome.
My wife's HP Pavillion laptop came with Vista back in 2009 and she loved it and it worked great. It now runs comfortably with Ubuntu due to a Windows update that killed the system. Found out later it was an update that had to be done through media player to not kill things.
next up: was windows 8 THAT bad?
it was bad.. win 10 is better but performance wise only
hell yeah it was!
Well i didnt have any issues with windows 8.1 thats why i didnt update to windows 10 version. In my experience you must keep the system that works for you
It was bad from my experience. Don't know whether it was from a bad install or updates but it became increasingly useless as I kept losing functionality. Later found out my file system had failed. Pretty much forced me back to 7.
yes
I liked Windows Vista back then but I hated that Microsoft made Halo 2 only playable on Vista; leaving XP users out. It made the multiplayer terrible because not a lot of people owned Vista back then.
you must've had a pretty badass system back then.
That was because dx10 was not available on xp, and halo 2 required dx10 to work.
Its because of game support not on purpose. Windows xp didnt have the proper DX10
@@Cr1tiCalThe0ry Halo 2 wasn't using 10, I believe your thinking of Gears of War. Also Halo 2 runs fine on XP via hacks.
This kind of comments is why Vista's reputation is so bad. Uninformed hate
5:00 That reminds me on when I wanted to install a new graphic card in my computer with Windows 8. The drivers of this graphic card were only for Windows 7 or 10 but not for Windows 8. And so I came to Windows 10. (A great choice)
watching this on 2022, still cant believe how good the production quality is
Vista = YES + NO Vista = YO. lol that's some solid logic there Linus.
NES
YO!
Vista = YO VTEC = YO Vista = VTEC Huh, the more you know...
I loled at that 😂
@@VAX1970 Nintendo Entertainment System? It's a joke, don't take it seriously, Vista's good
Vista: was it bad? Windows8: let's make an OS that sucked beyond question.
Apart from Windows 8 having such a really bad ui for non touch devices, ive heard that it was also a bit unstable for some. But 8.1 fixed most of the problems just like what Windows 7 did to Vista.
Windows 8.1 was the best os
@@juanzambrano1760 I'm talking about a touchscreen device like the surface pro. I prefer using windows 8 instead of windows 10 on a touchscreen device. In my opinion, windows 8 is a lot better in that way, BTW it's a lot faster than win 10 probably because of less bloat-ware. Yes, I can agree that using it on a desktop is just bad.
@@lizzybach4254 On touch devices it maybe but on desktop win7 is the best except for the fact that it's support is ended
@@vrajeshpc It is the best for touch devices. Its start menu does not look hideous compared to win 10 and it has a lot of gestures. And also it is very fast.
AERO graphics (which stood for Authentic Energetic Reflective and Open) was way ahead of its time. Too bad that it was heavy on system resources.The semi opaque GUI in windows 10 are step down visually.
i literally guessed that linus would say "after this word, from our sponsor" on 0:54
7:13 Windows end support: 2020 This guy: 2 5 6 0
The main problem was that they were coming from windows xp and those pc's generally had 256mb or 512mb ram. Vista loved memory since it could load more programs into memory and back in the day 2gb of ram was so expensive so not many people could afford it well atleast here in southafrica. So basically it ran well with more memory and if you were lucky to have drivers for your hardware.
and then the thing with the core 2 duos where people would stick to their Pentium instead..
I had pc with amd Athlon and 4 gb ram. Vista was still crap.
I remember when MS suspended sales of XP, a lot of manufacturers got stuck with a ton of budget XP machines still in process. For a year or two after that, there were a lot of Vista Basic machines in the market that had no real hope of running right with the hardware they had as the manufacturers ran through components meant for budget XP machines. That kinda thing in a new purchase goes a long way towards building a bad reputation.
RAM was actually very affordable in those days. At least, comparatively to how 16gb (8x2) used to cost earlier this year. I remember buying a 512 stick for no more than $60.
Africa have computers? where do they plug it in, in the trees?
It's almost as if Vista was the beta version of Windows 7, and Windows 8 was the beta version of Windows 10
There was Windows 8.1 between Windows 10 and Windows 8, and 8.1 was good, very good
Actually though, like Windows 8 is just a half-baked version of Windows 10
Which kinda makes me think that the beta version of 10 must've been so much of a basket case as they seemed to have chosen not to release it, that being Windows 9.
@@stephenhunter70 I don't think Windows 9 existed as its own product though, I feel like they were designing 9 but decided to call it 10 instead. But there were beta builds (Build 9697 and 9834) that were originally planned for Windows 8.1 but then pushed to 9 and renamed to 10 before public betas began. There were many flaws with the Windows 10 betas. One beta bricked my laptop and I had to revert to Windows 8.1 with a clean install. But by the time the RTM arrived, I feel like most of the issues had been ironed out.
@@Eric-qe6xz whatever the case, what I heard was they chose not to release it! I personally like to believe that it was so bad it didn't even make their beta testing.
I 'upgraded' to Vista from XP pretty much as soon as it was launched. Honestly, I had no issues with it but my PC wasn't long built at the time so never had any noticeable performance issues or driver issues. The only problem initially was CPU and drive activity would constantly sit around 3 - 4% but service pack 1 sorted that for me.
Everyone else just getting nightmarish flashbacks from this video meanwhile I'm having very nice nostalgic memories of my childhood.
"Outdated janky looking UI" Dont talk about my best features you betcha
sheesh dude you lag as f
@@urtooslow4415 O_O SHUT UP
7 is better than 10 hands down
Meh compiz fusion had way better effects at the time and could run on older gpu's....
ur windows 7 not windows vista lolollololol
Did you know: Windows XP's slogan was originally; "Prepare to Fly", but due to the tragic events on September 11, 2001, they scrapped it because it could be conceived as insensitive, and they renamed it to "Yes You Can".
Oh dear what happened on sept 21 2001🤔 😏
@@BeastMode070subscribe On September 11, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, New York, USA, as a result of a terrorist attack.
@@eetswaadlay2288 bruh I was jk
@@eetswaadlay2288 Day when USA killed a few people and destroyed a few buildings...
@@eetswaadlay2288 American here. No we didn't fucking do that to ourselves.
Nice nightmare creatures reference BTW I had the best memories with xp/vista/7
3:40 daaaaaamn that UI is simply amazing! definitely miss the aero look, windows 10 should have had included it =/
Windows Vista: Im the worst operating system Windows 8: *IM ABOUT TO END THIS WHOLE MAN CAREER*
asdrio275 8 was a complete fuck fest
I was on this "Fuck you Windows 8 start screen interface" bandwagon, but after trying it for a half hour, I came to really like it. Sure, instant search really helped out as well, but to me, it was far more easier to navigate to an icon on a separate screen to launch a program, rather than having to go through sub folders on the menu.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew The problem wasn't the ease of access through the improved start menu, it was the move to force touch friendly UIs on conventional mouse/kb users. It was simply very clunky and inconvenient to have to always open a full screen app with ridiculously large buttons just to start a program when the same could be done through a small menu like in W10. It's understandable on phones and tablets but on desktop PCs? Don't fix it if it isn't broken.
I kinda liked 8 tbh.
@@monk_I loved Windows 8.
Windows Vista was on my first Computer when I was 12 years old. So much memories and it never crashed, thats why I never understood the negative comments. Vista will always have a place in my heart.
Mine lagged, but it would lag with any os. Celeron m 1,73 single core
The complaints were from people with low end machines. Vista was too demanding for most PCs.
@@tedtheawesome5803 Bro, i had a 150$ PC
@@shotbyrima mine was MSI Megabook VR700. 1gb ram,80 gb hdd 950gma video. I lately installed windows xp, than windows 8.1 and it was even better. I stopped using it in 2013. For low end systems I would install linux, unless you want to play some old games like frozen throne, starcraft and diablo II.
@@carmieologyThis windows Vista is 100% installed on HDD there is no way to run property any modern OS including linux without severe lag or at least considerable delay. My point is you either need to change this HDD or if you have place run both drive SSD for windows 10. + HDD( You can place the older hard drive where CD drive is now, the new SSD goes where your HDD is currently. In both cases there is no point in formatting and deleting Vista paritition( at least keeping it in sehlf storage for some day) My advice is to go for dual boot if you want to keep both Vista and win 10.
Early in the release 3rd party drivers were not available which was our issue, but by the time Service packs came about the Business I worked at our PC's all had Vista running. Good after the fine tuning!
0:00 I genuinely thought I was watching an ad
"It looks almost exactly like windows 7" I lived to say those words, thank you Linus
Actually it's the other way around.
@Christopher Surillo Yeah, those were awesome and very innovative compared to Windows XP
Windows 7 is the shit, I love it!!!
It surely doesnt run as well as windows 7 though
@@friedrichii.aliasdergroe9233 :)) The service pack 2 make Vista run as good as Windows 7.
"outdated janky lookig UI" You mean the UI that everyone got used to until Windows 10 came along and fooked it all up again.
agreed lol i really hate windows 10 tiles and much prefer the simple ui from those days.
Technically windows 8 already changed the design but everyone seems to forget about win 8 😬
Yannick true lol I liked windows 10 just not the tiles but you are right I did forget it started in windows 8.
y'all know you can make windows 10 looks like windows 7 right?
@@Fluffypotato1990 windows 8 had tiles, windows 10 went back to normal
Great Intro! You already got the like for it. The thing is release and later was really buggy and low performing until SP1. SP1 made the system good. SP2 made it great. Around one year later Win7 came out and automatically it became obsolete... I really loved the Aero UI and the widgets of that time.
I can see from the comments that no 2 people had the same experience. I encountered some of the horrid bugs, data lost while copying and stuff like that.
Yes + No = *YO* -Linus(2018)
No + Yes = Nes?
Yes + No = SNOW
@@WellBeSerious12 DO THE MARIO
It had MS Paint, so not in my opinion
@@GiovanniSmith tru
Hahaha 69 likes
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not as bad as WINDOWS ME
You're everywhere
6:30 I expected an *"Our sponsor!"* phrase there tbh😅
Great voice over at the start
A random day in 2008 Gamer: my pc can run vista with no lag another Gamer: wow you must've got a GTX 295
Me in 2020 : ugh, games on Windows 10 are soooo laggy. Gamer : Check my TITAN RTX.
wow i remember the gtx 295 that is OG
The gtx 295 came out in 2009 tho
Ethereal I don’t remember what year it came out. But I remember in 2008-ish I was looking in future shop at the GTX 260 And the 295 caught my eye
@@tucker12435 release was in January 2009 I remember.
Son: Dad can you drop me to school Linus: Sure son ...... but after a message from our sponsors, dollar shave club is what keeps your dad look handsome, make sure to use the code linustechtips for 5% off when you need to shave!
@@namelesstheme4046 the hell does that mean
@@apeiron1700 yeah thats sound dumb
@@namelesstheme4046 imagine being a binman and petting a cat.
u try doing full time utube for free
Witcher 3 intro cinematic vibes from the narration at the begining by riley
Why didn't I watch this yet ? Freaking amazing editing lmao
- Was Windows Vista THAT bad? - *YO*
HAHAHA IKR. A combination of Yes but No = YO
yo man for real, i threw up a little
I thought he meant Yes Ofcourse XD
no it wasn't that bad really. the mac book killers launched with it...they didn't think it was that bad apparently lol
*NES*
What most people don't realize is that Windows Vista and Windows 7 are essentially the same operating system. But because of the blemish on the Vista name, what would have just been a major service pack for Vista was released as Windows 7.
Exactly
@El-ahrairah Windows 7 was essentially the Vista equivalent to XP SP2, which was an update so large, it was almost a complete rewrite of the OS; so huge in fact, you could actually install XP from scratch just from the Service Pack. However, M$ marketing would tell a different story.
@El-ahrairah I started using it in july of '08, and I'm 100% positive It was perfectly fine then. I guess SP1+ it was.
@Rock Light That's your experience. (I had the near-reverse experience, with Vista being near perfect and W7 having constant crashes and OS problems, but it turned out that it was a graphics problem). I Don't deny your PC problems, but this is not what made vista's bad reputations. Frequent réinstallations and getting hacked are not at all specific to Vista (in fact when it comes to malwares XP was definitely worse). However, vista's specific problems (the ones that got it a bad reputation) were: -underpowered PCs receiving the "vista capable" label. The PC industry had stagnated during the XP era as there was no urge to keep Moving forward, and so it was underprepared for Vista. (it is telling that low-end PC specs nearly quadrupled between '07 and '08) -driver compatibility problems (Vista had a new driver system that didn't mesh well with most early 2000s quick&dirty drivers). -the user account control. This was a necessary security measure (for all the users out there downloading every cr*p they found online), but it was quite annoying, especially if you knew well what you were doing. -"memory hog". (vista was not actually hogging the memory, it was managing it in an unfamiliar way, but it still looked like memory hog) -maybe, the implementation of DRMs. I mean, the FSF made a lot of noise about it in '07, but barely anyone else mentioned it. It was probably not the problem. However, crashes and malwares and BSODs are definitely not vista's specific problem. In fact, the BSOD is not a problem, but a solution; and if Microsoft removed it from Windows, then you'd be able to continue working (without saving of course) or playing or whatevering for a couple more minutes and then your PC would commit autodestruction.
also, a Vista SP3 that had the W7 system améliorations, the superbar and libraries, the new paint and wordpad, and the theme system and MP4/MOV support but without all the downsizing (moviemaker, photogallery, mail, calendar, meetingspace, Inkball, less sample content, file stacking, dinosaur pointers, less screensavers, the contacts gadget, help videos, dreamscene, etcaetera…) and with the vista look-and-feel (dark blue-green gradient with the animated "flare" thing) Would have been the AWESOMEST.
started computing with vista on a personally owned pc. before that it was net cafe shared computers. loved its aero glass, green theme. the widgets were great. thought i will continue with it forever but manufacturers wont let you do that after a while. so reluctantly switched to 8.1 that was a network access mess and had shortest shelf life.
After the first service pack about 6 months in, it was fine. Needed a few little settings tweaks, but it was just as stable as Windows XP and was closer to Windows 7 than it was to XP in look and feel.
Part of the problem was computer sellers putting vista on computers that were meant for XP and only just had the min specs to run vista.
So the minimum specs should have been higher.
Or maybe Vista shouldn't have used so much memory. After all, Windows 7 didn't use as much memory.
@@garethrowlands That's because Microsoft addressed the issue (complaint) of Vista using too much memory ; so they probably disabled things from Vista to accommodate the users still using XP > thus making the upgrade to 7 possible. On my rig at that time, Vista was using 1 GB of RAM when idle, while 7 was using 750-800 MB. But in my case at least, I could play games on Vista without crashing/ BSODs, while on 7 I always experienced BSODs for some reason, especially when overclocking ! (but with overclocking also on Vista, all was OK)
@@manupainkiller Nailed on the head comment there. I think simply Vista was a bit ahead of its time, especially hardware wise.
they still do that kind of stuff even on to this day ... selling old computers with new software or OS thats not ment to be sold together with it in the first place !
Windows ME (Mistake Edition) was a nightmare.
LOL.. Very true. :-)
But remember ME was the one which came with msconfig command. ☝️😊👌
Incorrect msconfig was introduced with Windows 98 not ME.
I loved millennium edition still have it on an old Frankenstein Compaq
The pinball and movie maker.
my heart fills with joy with all the other people who actually loved vista too. Some nostalgic - simpler place and time, some the tech - gadgets and others just the look. The best thing about Vista is that it represented a time when you chose to interact with the outside world using your computer. Go to Win10 start menu and there's advertising tiles and other crap I didn't install and can't use unless I pay a subscription. There's a news and rubbish popup from the task bar that I didn't ask for. A control panel that is hidden. My OS spies on me more than ever. I still run vista in VMs but as a nod to vista - I still run gadgets on the desktops of all my computers. I've got the backgrounds from my vista installations and they adorn my win10 backgrounds, but I really miss the scrolling windows effects. i've got a remake but its not the same. I liked the active background - I could put something like a flightradar equivalent as the background and just watch. Now with Win11 what will it be - more like win 10 or will it bring back the features that made OS' like vista unique?
0:48 "pushed out in to a World that isnt ready" Sounds like every Sega console ever 😂
Best damn intro. More Cinematic Linus please, your RED doesn't need to be a paper weight for vlogs..
500% agreed
The only thing that killed it was the sponsor
Reclusive Eagle yesssss!
@@Evtrex13 it actually made me laugh because Linus knows how awkward it is and plays with it
I remember working support... "vista capable" PC... user complaining of extremely slow performance. Damn thing only had 256megs of ram...
Uhh, my laptop has 3072 megabytes!
My parents XP machine (I use it now for some CD ROM games) had 512 megs. I upgraded it to 2 gigs, runs great either way.
@n z right, what I'm saying is that the XP machine had more RAM than a "Vista certified" one. Which is crazy.
@n z the biggest problem was that XP was advertised to run on 256MB whit 512MB as recommended at launch. problem was 512MB was in practices the minimum whit 1024MB as he recommended. and XP was a 32 bit system meaning 2.8ish GB was the cap. and 2038 as its late date before its calendar goes bonkers). added to the fact that many system at XP launch day ran windows98 and 95 that had a sort of cap at 256+64MB(it had a really weird RAM cap) I think resulting in most system only having 256MB at best. 256 been the bare minimum for XP when it should be 512... que XP crashing because of out of RAM errors.
i was looking through windows folders and i found the bubbles screensaver so i made a shortcut for my desktop so now i can activate it at any time
The intro made me think that I was watching a computer horror movie... with Linus..
windows me: im the worst operating system windows vista: hold my virus windows 8: hold my tablet windows 10: hold my update
lmao
I'm pretty sure that Me is still the worst, everyone has forgotten it though.
@@wordart_guian Windows 9 was the worst, because it never existed so it never contributed to humanity windows 9 the worst >:(
This is so funny
funny thing about windows me and even windows 4.1 is that its still detecting even actual drivers like even internet drivers and it still works very well :)