So funny enough another Mac fell into my lap and our success with Matt's mac encouraged me to get U22.04 installed on a 2014 macbook pro..

I tried to install using Ventoy only to hit this issue: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/52
I ended up writing the ISO directly to my scratch stick and installing from there.

Just a heads up if you end up tripping on this.
Thanks,
Tim.

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