Hardware qualification

The first candidate boundary is Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on x86-64 UEFI systems. No reference system has completed the physical release gate yet.

What software can check now

The installer preflight can report:

Hard platform and resource mismatches block the candidate. Clock and audio findings remain warnings until onboarding can offer appropriate remediation and non-voice fallback.

What needs a physical lab

Two named systems must complete the same immutable candidate across clean installation, first run, sustained workload, suspend, reboot, update, rollback, backup, restore, repair, removal, and reset. Records must include model, CPU, RAM, storage, firmware, peripherals, model profile, commands, results, maintainer, and date.

Representative USB and Bluetooth audio devices must be tested for input, output, reconnect, and fallback behavior. Local-model profiles also need measured latency, memory, storage, thermal, acoustic, and energy envelopes.

Evaluation guidance

You may use WSL2 or a normal VM as a development environment, but those results cannot satisfy UEFI, firmware, Secure Boot, TPM, audio, Bluetooth, suspend, thermal, power, or physical fresh-install requirements. The current release does not publish WSL, VM, or ISO images.

See compatibility for the support-tier model and current status for the complete evidence boundary.