I've tried Mate twice and for some reason the Pi 400 just doesn't like Mate, two different high spec sd cards ; I turn on power, the light blinks and shuts OFF.
Ubuntu 22.04, Pi 64, Manjaro, Twister All worked fine, but so far can't get Mate or maybe Mint in general to work.
If you can install Ubuntu, you should be able to install the mate-desktop package and it'll install Mate in Ubuntu. You can then select it when you login.
I haven't tried it, but your symptoms suggest your Pi is not booting your Mate image at all - where did you get it from? I wonder if it's an image for Intel rather than Arm CPUs?
I don't think Linux Mate has an Arm version, so you can't run it on a Pi. There are various guides about hacking up an Ubuntu install to look similar to Mint, but most people install Mint for its simplicity when coming from a Windows background. I think the level of hacking up is not really suitable for those ex-Windows folks.
Theo
Typo, should be 'I don't think Linux Mint has an Arm version'. Mint is a distro, Mate is a desktop. You can install the Mate desktop on other distros such as Ubuntu.
If you wanted the Cinnamon desktop rather than the Mate desktop, on Ubuntu the package to install is called 'cinnamon'.
Theo
One image came from Mint web page downloads, the other came from the Pi image app, both said for Raspberry pi 64 bit, both refused to load, both said for ARM cpu.
I am a bit bummed;But the Pi. 64 OS is quite good, even if some of the software is a bit behind.
OKay, I may be wrong, I got Ubuntu-Mate 20.04 desktop - Arm 64-pi image.
Certainly true for me when I started developing on Linux. I tried Mint but soon switched to major release Ubuntu because all web examples were in terms of Ubuntu and even a little deviation could confuse me.
I've been running the Mate desktop with Raspbian for the last 3 major OS and hardware versions, so it does work. Start with a working system with the standard pixel desktop and install mate-desktop-environment. After rebooting Mate will be a desktop option from the login screen.
Linux Mint (the distro) isn't available for the Pi, but the Mate desktop is available for on Raspbian and ARM Ubuntu distros.
I've never tried to install Cinnamon on the Pi, but from experience on x86 systems it is considerably more CPU and memory hungry than Mint, so probably isn't the best fit for the Pi
---druck
+1
ITYM "considerably more CPU and memory hungry than *MATE* "
Yes, I'm typing Mint where I meant Mate now too.
---druck
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