Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
How to debloat Windows 10/11 for those who still have computers running it
(Or just switch to Linux!)
Would love to switch to Linux, but I'm a gamer, even though Linux Gaming has gotten a lot better over the years.
I just game through Steam and the majority of games I've wanted to play work fine. There've only been a few games where the Proton compatibility tool doesn't work for a game.
I'm a Linux user (Fedora) and have been one the last 10+ years and have not looked back to Windows. Recently, I helped my MIL set up a new laptop and it came with S mode enabled. Took me two days to switch out of S mode. After all that crap, it made me feel better about my decision to switch over to Linux.
The reason why I switched was cuz I grew tired of having to wait half a day for one single hotfix to apply, even on my custom built computer with the latest technology at that time, it still took half a friggin' day to apply a hotfix? Bye Windows.
Windows 11 isn't any better as it is pushing me away even further from going back to Windows.
All someone needs to do to make Linux explode is port all the high quality work software to it and BAM