Status of Ubuntu MATE 18.04 for Raspberry Pi 3 B & B+?

[Norbert_X]

Short notes:

1. I have modified installation image of 16.04 LTS for my 3 B+.

Adapting official Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2 LTS image to run on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (3B+)

Background I have just bought the newest Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. I played with NOOBS but I like Ubuntu MATE more So I went to the download page and got ubuntu-mate-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img.xz image file. I did not know yet that it is not supported on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. Then I tried to perform some search here and on RaspberryPi.org forums. Both recommend to download special image for 3 B+ (another 4.32 Gb, see for example this post by MaxVMH here or on Rasper…

2..Then I have simply done do-release-upgrade on it. Currently it looks as follows: