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  • I bought a brand new desktop with Vista preinstalled. I had a 3 year old scanner that wouldn’t work with it. That seemed reasonable. My 2 month old, $500 printer wouldn’t work with it either. None of my Games would work with it. Most of the software I had wouldn’t work with it. I had to buy a new printer, scanner, and software which was very expensive. I just tossed my games, which I regret because there are emulators that can run them now.

    It also had major issues, and would crash a lot. Most of the new “features” didn’t actually work. I had it less than a year before I switched to Linux.

    My son is into retro computing. He tells me that eventual Vista updates made it much more stable and usable, but I didn’t have it long enough to get those updates.

    That pretty much ended my relationship with Windows. XP had me thinking that maybe Microsoft wasn’t that bad, but Vista left me with such a bad taste in my mouth that I could never buy another Windows machine.