Are there official Ubuntu ARM / aarch64 desktop images?

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But are there any ARM images that come with a graphical desktop installed by default?

I don't have specific hardware requirements, even just running it on QEMU would be fine for now.

Graphical desktops do not work well on ARM devices, because there is usually no appropriate graphics driver available. Without it, graphical programs either won't work at all, or would be painfully slow. — mikewhatever, Jun 01 '18 at 17:07
@mikewhatever what about Raspberry Pi 3 for example? Looks good enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKv5YGi0Njw — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Jun 01 '18 at 17:12
Indeed, there are a few exceptions like RP3 and Odroid devices with stable graphics, but even those have limited RAM and week CPUs, which make them more suitable as servers. Needless to say, you could always try and install a light DE, for example Lubuntu or MATE. — mikewhatever, Jun 01 '18 at 17:21
Possible duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/questions/952885/installing-a-graphic-user-interface-in-ubuntu-14-04 — K7AAY, Jun 01 '18 at 21:40
@K7AAY disagree with duplicate because this is focused on images with pre-installed graphical interface. — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Jun 02 '18 at 06:34

score 24 · Answer 1 · edited May 10 '23 at 05:15

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Yes there are. You can find the installer images for Ubuntu Desktop on arm64 in the daily builds:

Note that these images are not officially supported. They should be stable, however, and they are created by the Ubuntu project

edited May 10 '23 at 05:15

FFmpegEnthusiast

answered Aug 18 '21 at 18:33

MinelsGO

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Nice, seems to be the first LTS with ARM desktop by comparing with https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/bionic/daily-live/current/ – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Aug 18 '21 at 18:55
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but will this work with the mac m1? – Jamie Hutber Feb 19 '23 at 22:57
These images work on the M1 mac using a Parallels VM. – Merlijn Sebrechts Mar 10 '23 at 14:41

javacom · Answer 2 · 2022-08-28T23:08:35.070

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Installing Ubuntu Desktop for arm64 using Ubuntu Server ISO

At the end of the installation, you will have Ubuntu Server installed without any GUI. To install Ubuntu Desktop, log in and run:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop
$ sudo reboot

edited Aug 28 '22 at 23:08

answered Aug 28 '22 at 21:18

javacom

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But what is your starting point system? :-) – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Aug 29 '22 at 06:42
it reads "Ubuntu Server". I guess you can install the ARM version of server, and then download the desktop packages from there. – Myoch Nov 29 '22 at 01:08
only solution for ubuntu 20.04 thanks – sekomer Oct 24 '23 at 10:29

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '22 at 07:03

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You can find it in the ubuntu daily build

answered Apr 22 '22 at 07:03

Asish Tom

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