Vista was utter garbage. It is historical revisionism to only blame it's failing on minimum requirements. Not only was it slow, it was a horrible clickfest eg with almost 20 clicks and almost as many windows to change wifi settings. At that time (and probably still today) do you know how many did you need to get to wifi settings on OSX? 3 or 4. That was insulting to a windows user and I've never used windows again as my primary choice of OS. Windows 11 is on a good path to become Vista as it's enshittified to hell and back.

I second that, and I don’t have a much better opinion on 7 and eight. I kind of like 10 and 11 on their corporate crapware-free versions.

Still would prefer a Unix like OS though. Windows is too complicated to debug.