Vista was either magic or crap depending on your hardware/software needs. Almost no middle ground. I was supporting about 100 PC’s at the time, and it was a nightmare for work, but I enjoyed running it myself.
From a corporate standpoint, skipping it for win7 was a serious win for IT.
On the upside, the latest Samsung UI on android has something pretty close to Vista’s old task manager.
What always pissed me off is the indentation/codeblock style. Most languages you can write in notepad and be fine, if you don’t use a proper editor in python, you’re going to spend time hunting down indent issues.