@marioandsonic  
And with compatible drivers. Poor driver compatibility was what made people have bad experiences with Vista, and Windows 7 fixed that.
 
There is a conspiracy theory known as the Windows Pattern. The Windows Pattern is the belief is that odd major Windows releases are unfinished, buggy, beta test releases with poor reception; and even major Windows releases are finished releases with good reception. Allegedly, the purpose of the odd releases is for Microsoft to listen to end user feedback so they can fix problems while developing the even releases, and they expect negative feedback to be perfectly normal with the odd releases.
 
Windows Pattern:  
1.01: Beta/Shit  
3.0/3.1/WfW 3.11: Final/Good  
NT 3.1: Beta/Nothing supports it.  
95/NT 4.0: Final/Good  
98: Beta/Fail Sauce  
98SE/2000: Final/Good  
ME: Beta/Epic Fail  
XP: Final/Awesomazing  
Vista: Beta/Windows ME on crack cocaine  
7: Final/Best yet!  
8: Beta/Impossible to use  
10: Final/Spies, but the average person doesn’t care.

As an owner of a Vista OS, it’s pretty good.
 
…during the first year of ownership.

I got Vista as well, I think it was just made as cheaply as possible (not that it’s bad).

I think that the Vista hate, much like the Win8 hate, is nothing but bandwagoning by people that don’t like change.  
That’s just my two cents, though.

Allegedly, the original problem with Vista was the lack of compatible drivers for hardware (especially x64). Those drivers that did work did so very poorly, causing the performance of the entire OS to suffer. I used it (x86) for a good two years. I find that 7 is just an incremental update to fix some of Vista’s sluggishness. Windows 8 is… I don’t even know.

Hey, it’s better than Windows 8

@Prince Leaf
 
Pretty much.
 
When you get down to it, Windows 7 is basically Vista with all of its services packs + a new taskbar.

and just when installs windows vista the computer crashes

I think the Vista hate comes from its release period when it was such a resource hog that many computers either couldn’t run it, or did so with great difficulty. Nowadays, with 7 around, it’s more the butt of a joke than anything else.

I’m using vista. but imma upgrade to 7 once I get a better computer that can actually play games without lagging

@GargantuanBass
 
Same.

I really don’t understand the hate behind Vista. I’ve used it for years, and it works fine.

@gg666  
You’re not alone…

honestly. I’d take Vista over 8