Thank you, Thom, for your feedback and summary.
Is there a tool that I can run to perform that check before installing, something that I can run from my UM 22.04 desktop, and not have to run the Live from the ISO ?
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I don't know if there is an app to do this easier but as far as I can remember you can use command in terminal lshw that will list out all the hardware and when you get the list open up the database from Ubuntu main page and cross-reference it to see if you have stuff compatible with what is listed using ctrl-f when you copy and paste main info from terminal that you've got open next to browser tab (it was quicker than using live ISO when I tried it haha) :
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Thank you, @Alarik .
My desktop is a home-built custom job that my brother built from components (separate including CPU and motherboard), so I'm always antsy when it comes to installing a new Distro/Release.
I will see if I can work with that URL, but I was hoping for a "magic wand" that would only flag "incompatibilities" which are not supported, which would be indicators regarding needs to perform specific hardware upgrades (if those were possible).
This site is "interesting", but that's about it. Don't know about the "usefulness" of the results offered, for my objectives of pre-install compatibility verification for a specific ISO-build.
and this is what I have
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I see you already used that great online checker that @Alarik posted 
I don't see any problematic hardware on that list. You are good to go.
I still advise to run the Live ISO before installing, just to check if it boots to desktop
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I always run the live ISO first. I would never install without running the live ISO first. Live ISO's have less capabilities, if everything works running the live ISO the installation should work.
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I agree absolutely - better to be safe than sorry any time 
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To @madhens , @Norbert_X , @ricmarques ,
May I bring to your attention that when I check at
I don't see a listing for the directory to giving access to the source code images for that build, unlike what is available at
Is that an oversight? or is the release project timeline for publishing that not yet arrived?
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Hi, @ericmarceau
( Usual disclaimer / reminder: please note that I'm just another Forum user here, I'm NOT an Ubuntu Developer and/or an Ubuntu MATE Developer ).
You wrote:
I must confess that I had never noticed those "Source image" links. I've done now a few web searches and I've found the following article, in the "Phoronix" web site, posted by Michael Larabel (founder and principal author of Phoronix), on 4th January of this year (2024), that pointed out that Ubuntu was looking at discontinuing its source ISO:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Discontinue-Source-ISOs
That same "Phoronix" article points to a discussion in the "ubuntu-release" mailing list. By reading the messages in that discussion topic / thread (started by Michael Hudson-Doyle from Canonical), it becomes clear that the decision to discontinue the Ubuntu source ISOs was made in that mailing list thread (that discussion thread happened on the days 3rd and 4th of January 2024). Here is the link to that discussion:
" discontinuing source ISOs? "
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05621.html
I hope this helps
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