KDE user here. Never used gnome, why is it an issue?

Okay thanks. Yeah, the SSDs and 16gb of ram should mitigate speed issues. My main hesitation is the older CPUs in these. They’re not very future-proof and we are going to run windows 11 professional on them. With OS updates i can see them getting sluggish. They should be fine for a few years but can’t see them lasting much longer than 4-5 years. I suppose that’s fine for the price-point though

Thank you :)

I literally just beat the final boss last night, haha. I didn’t solo them, I just tanked-up and used mimic. They looked like bullshit and after stubbornly soloing Rellana I figured life is too short. With mimic, heavy armour, a great shield and blood antspur rapier it was fine. I’d like to solo them when I have a machine that runs the game better in future. My Xbox one x was chugging so I wasn’t trying to solo them in an unstable frame rate

Good article on the Meereenese Knot: https://meereeneseblot.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/untangling-the-meereenese-knot-part-i-who-poisoned-the-locusts/

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I was pretty much the same after a few tries. Summoned the skeleton shieldbros and they stunlocked her hard. I let her kill me when it was apparent that I’d barely have to try. Proceeded to solo her but it was a miserable experience for a few hours until I finally cracked her. Learning her patterns and soloing her is def fun. Full fight here: https://www.xbox.com/play/media/ddkXY5shAE

Thanks for the advice re: management. Definitely something we’ll need to plan for.

Yeah, I said they’re “useless as is”, because they’re running an outdated OS, have internet explorer on them, etc. the hardware is obviously far from useless but getting it to a good place in terms of user experience for a younger audience will involve a time investment. So yes, useless as is.

I’ll be watching tomorrow as I can’t tonight, hope I can avoid spoilers!

This is a good idea honestly, I’ll consider it!

Thanks for the super-informative post :) I’ve had a look around some more machines and there’s some i3’s in the mix too. Think I’m going to try Mint xfce on one of them and see if it copes. Yeah, consolidating ram seems like it should be a priority. There are a few i3 machines sitting headless gathering dust on the floor, they seem like a good place to scavenge from

There’s about 15 machines. Not a huge amount, I was definitely exaggerating with ‘a tonne’ haha. I think it just feels like a big waste, hence the exaggeration 😅

Yeah I’ve installed LTSC on a couple of machines too (goofygoobers version, I think) so that’s another option

Oh for sure, it’s just explaining that to boomer management that’s tough

Yeah, securing them might be the biggest challenge tbh. I work full-time at the school and won’t really have time to provide tech support. The windows machines are ‘managed’ by a third-party IT solutions company, but like I said they’re mostly useless at this point and are rarely turned on anymore.

Students don’t have user accounts so a generic log in could work. could see the school not allowing a Linux install without some sort of management/tech support procedure in place though. Security is probably the biggest hurdle to clear but I guess if we’re paying an IT company to manage window machines I don’t see why they couldn’t support Linux too, unless they’re unfamiliar with the OS :(

Corporate musicians still suck

Okay thanks, good to know the quality is decent with the file size

Are PSA encodes terrible? The file size is always appealing but I guess there’s a reason they’re small

That’s fair, but again these people have proven they know what they’re doing. Criticising this dev team after a misstep I can get, criticising them in the light of the two games they’ve just delivered just seems like talking for the sake of talking. I grew up with MM being a direct sequel to OoT, I’m fine with building on an already great game. I doubt they’ll let the series stagnate.