just for context, i've been daily driving this thinkpad z61m with windows vista sp2 for the past week and it's actually been pretty damn good lol. sorry, i just don't like linux that much. though i might post haiku in the future :3
also it's dual booted with XP Pro SP3 :p
As an aside, I have bad news for the person who downvoted almost every comment here: Downvotes are disabled and not viewable in lemmy.blahaj.zone, and they don't count toward the vote total. Sorry, weirdo.
i'd say it was more because the hardware requirements lol, if it came out in, say, 2008, I feel like people would've already had better computers and it would've been better received. that being said, it'll be fine on high end hardware as far back as 2004 I believe