Came to get Ubuntu MATE v20.04 for Raspberry Pi

Thoughts & Feedback
#1

I came here to get Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi, and was disappointed to see that support is still stuck at a beta version of v18.04.2. Ubuntu v18.04.2 was released almost a year and a half ago.

Also, when you click-thru to download v18.04.4 for RPi, you are instead served v18.04.2-beta1, but thanked for downloading v18.04.04!

It is obvious that RPi support is an afterthought, and isn't really happening. I suggest the distro drop all pretenses of RPi support, and drop it. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this free up any people to put more effort into UM's general development effort as it doesn't appear anyone has been devoting ANY time to the RPi.

#2

I wish I could help with the Raspberry Pi effort. Alas, as unlikely as it may sound, I don't have a Raspberry Pi to work with.

#3

Yes, you can get it.

Download the Ubuntu server version, then just install the mate-desktop-environment. Voilà, you have your Ubuntu Mate 20.04 for your Raspberry Pi 4 ... 64-bit even.

I do not understand why the Ubuntu Mate project has not put more effort into this. Although the Raspberry Pi 4 is finally 64-bit ... the OS's for it are still mostly 32-bit.

Guys ... let's get the ball rolling on it.