Long time fan of Ubuntu MATE here! Also a bit of a GPD fan.
I am receiving a GPD MicroPC tomorrow, and I would love to get Ubuntu MATE running on it. I looked at the specific release for MicroPC, and I noticed it is for 20.04.4 LTS (Choose a release | Download)
Is that what I should use even though it is an older version? Is 22.04.1 release for general amd64 systems the better choice? (Choose a release | Download)
I used to have a GPD PocketPC and the hardware is.. unique. Is there something I can do to help get a 22.04.1 build made for GPD MicroPC? Can I donate some cash towards that work?
I've never used a GPD device, but from what I've been searching, I think the easier solution for you is pretty similar to the one that @John1 wrote for installing Ubuntu MATE 22.04 in the "GPD Pocket 3" in the following answer, also here in the "Ubuntu MATE Community":
By that, I mean that you probably should, for the GPD MicroPC, do the following:
2 - Use that ISO to install Ubuntu MATE on your GPD MicroPC computer/device
3 - Then run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/wimpysworld/umpc-ubuntu.git cd umpc-ubuntu
4 - Edit the umpc-ubuntu.sh file (located in that "umpc-ubuntu" directory) and change UMPC="gpd-pocket3" at the top of the script to UMPC="gpd-micropc"
5 - Run the script to enable the configuration tweaks.
sudo ./umpc-ubuntu.sh enable
An ALTERNATIVE solution would be for you to create an ISO with the customized hardware tweaks and then use that "custom ISO" to do the installation, by doing the following:
