<Nipuna>
Hi, i'm looking to install ubuntu asahi on my mac, however i'm only seeing 23.10 and not 22.04 anymore (says it should be available according to the github readme). is this a bug or has 22.04 support been removed? thanks in advance :)
<tobhe[m]>
hi! we have removed it because it was really hard to maintain and keep feature parity
<tobhe[m]>
audio support for example relied on a few dependencies that are almost impossible to backport
<Nipuna>
thanks for the reply! ah damn, i assume there is no way for me to install 22.04 then (maybe by checking out the repo directly)? i need that particular LTS version for work (I use ROS) so even if some nice to have features are missing, i would really appreciate being able to install it myself (if possible)
<tobhe>
if it's only for development have you thought about using a 22.04 lxd container?
<tobhe>
that would allow you to get 23.10 hardware support and still use a 22.04 development environment
<eslerm[m]>
tobhe: could you add an updated version of kubuntu to the beta installer?
<tobhe[m]>
popey: I think the desktop team is aware of that
<tobhe[m]>
ah no, not this one
<popey>
I'll be honest, I would love for you guys to collaborate with official flavours before the likes of mint and pop
<popey>
Neither of whom are particularly flattering about Canonical or Ubuntu, but accept the work we do anyway 🤷
<tobhe[m]>
yes, that's also how i feel
<tobhe[m]>
with the exception of debian of course because that actually makes our life easier
<popey>
Oh, debian should be top of the list <3 :D
<tobhe[m]>
also flavors are much less work since they use the same infrastructure
<tobhe[m]>
building flavor images is a matter of passing the right arguments to launchpad at build time
<tobhe[m]>
eslerm[m]: will do
<popey>
Would be great to get coverage on all the flavours. Especially the popular ones like Kubuntu and Xubuntu. I bet XFCE would fly on the M1 GPU, given it's so lean.
<eslerm[m]>
maybe we could add xfce to our beta-installer for dev testers, without supporting needing to support Xorg-DEs in our installer 😉
<tobhe[m]>
we are a bit limited because upstream doesn't support xorg