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Installation guide for ARM #3950
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I'm pretty sure creating the install media is the same.
For PinebookPro someone posted in discord about this the other day. It sounds like maybe a newer version of uboot is required
For M series Macs I think we just say use a VM because going through the hoops to try to boot it natively will not result in a useable system
For raspberry pi I think you need a specific firmware but I don't have any other info
I'm not sure if ARM Thinkpads just boot or need something extra
I think if you want to have a working version for the M-Series Macs its going to be very limited just because of what actually works with Asahi Linux. Thats almost certainly something we should document.
Reacted by Danielle Foré and BeckyThat's a good point about M-Series Macs. We currently don't recommend that users run Elementary OS in a VM at all, but perhaps it's the only solution on a modern Mac? Other than just trying out the OS I wonder if there is actually a use case.
Out of curiousity do we have metrics on how many times the iso was downloaded on a Mac? That would give us some key insights into whether mac users are even using the OS.
@LuminousHustler it looks like we didn't set up separate analaytics for architecture but just from OS it's vast majority Windows, followed by Linux, with minority of macOS
https://plausible.io/elementary.io?f=is,goal,Download&period=12mo&keybindHint=L
Reacted by BeckyApologize in advance if i have not read and/or understood the issue tracker in github. Just want to give you a heads up for a possible website issue, i do believe all sha256 checksum examples on page "https://elementary.io/docs/installation#choose-operating-system". are for amd64 ISOs for all versions of OS, Windows version seem to refer to the correct image, but still show sha256 for amd64.
After download i get different sha256:
85116d48c406ae7cd60c936050a099d4b8610321273f6f0a694796db4d4e86ba -> "elementaryos-8.1-stable-arm64.20260219.iso"
bda93040d08c05911fb159f8150bf8f4ef2db6567ef6e2acd197cb6f395d3446 -> "elementaryos-8.1-stable-amd64.20260219.iso"
Problem
We don’t currently have installation guide instructions for the ARM images.
Proposal
An installation guide that includes:
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