Anyone tried 22.04 Mate?

[Akash Rao]

not yet
got to download

how is it?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 4:04 AM N B Day <nbday at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 02:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 24/04/2022, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> > > I've done the integrity check on the ISO file, tried writing the image
> > > to two different USB media, plugged it into a UEFI motherboard which
> > > starts to boot then just shuts down. 21.10 Mate runs off a hard drive
> > > with the same motherboard just fine although it does keep saying it has
> > > a problem to optionally report, then carries on. I wanted to try the
> > > LTS version of Ubuntu Mate then maybe swap back from Mint to Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > If I put 22.04 server onto the same media it goes into the boot
> > > priority settings OK but I have no wish to go into the installer on
> > > this computer. No more spare working hard drives.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When you said that it "starts to boot then just shuts down", describe
> > exactly what happened.
> >
> > I have found that, in booting, on earlier versions of UbuntuMATE (
> > 16.04, to 21.10 (which imploded, so, now, my latest version, is 20.10)
> > ), I have to wait about 10-20 minutes. For the first time, it will
> > probably be sorting out drivers and such. With what I have observed,
> > the boot process starts, then I get a completely black screen.
> >
> > If I wander off, and come back 10-30 minutes later, it will likely have
> > booted.
> >
> > So, if what you have observed, is starting the boot process, then,
> > simply getting a completely black screen, I would leave it for up to
> > 30 minutes, and find whether it boots.
> >
> > If it displays output that shows that it is definitely going through
> > the shutdown procedure, that is different.
>
> Boots normally here on this EFI home-built machine from a USB key made with
> the SUSE image writer from an iso obtained via torrent. Image writer seems
> to
> do the job with hybrid and non-hybrid isos
>
> I'm going to do a brave act next week and update my wife's Ubuntu MATE
> computer in multi-user.target mode with do-release-upgrade which has always
> worked for me in the  past.  I made the USB for belt-and-braces since the
> dog
> house is mighty cold in early spring.
>
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