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I'd argue Vista was way better than people gave it credit for.
Vista was overall "ok" when paired with hardware that could actually run it. Biggest perk was that for a small window of time, it was the only OS that had DX10 support outside of community patches to emulate DX10 in XP & 2K
UAC was implemented in an extremely overbearing way that trained users to ignore any critical system pop-ups.
Aside from that, many of the core systems were unoptimized, and when added on that many hardware partners under spec'd the entry level machines that were being sold with it, the OS performed far worse than it's predecessors.
Vista was better than people give it credit for simply because we now have 8 and 11 to compare it to. Vista sucked but it wasn't intentionally hostile towards the user like new versions of Windows are
Vista only really sucked if it was installed on an old PC or one of those cheap "Vista capable" machines that only had 512MB RAM.