I read that Vista was actually good but it required beefy computers that most people didn’t have at the time & Microsoft pushed manufacturers to put it on not good enough hardware which in turn made it a bad experience & the OS got a bad rep. Is this true?

Have Microsoft and Windows always been this bad? Asking as a 2005 born whose first Win was 10.

Yeah, after I read it a couple more times I got it. Initially I read “break” as in “to take a break from something” which implies a temporary action. English isn’t my first language so sometimes this happens.

“Permanent break”? Isn’t that just termination?