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 ### 103. Live ISO baseline desktop applications
 
+**Confirmed again on hardware, Bernardo 2026-07-14** (live ISO): still no
+browser, and no office/utility apps — *"that makes a live iso useful"*. This
+is the item's **why**, and it is worth more than the app list: a live ISO is
+what someone judges the distro by before installing, and what a user boots to
+rescue a machine that will not start — reading a wiki page, saving a document
+off a dying disk, checking a webmail. Nomarchy's live session currently cannot
+do any of those.
+
+**Verified inventory 2026-07-14** (eval of `nomarchy-live`'s HM packages +
+`environment.systemPackages`): `chromium=no firefox=no libreoffice=no
+amberol=no snapshot=no text-editor=no`. What the live session *does* carry is
+terminal tooling (yazi, btop, bat, fd, ripgrep, ghostty) plus zathura (PDF)
+and imv (images) — so the gap is exactly the GUI apps a non-Nix user would
+reach for. #94 established this is *by design* (the live profile never named
+them) and pointed here for the fix; #94's own remaining V2 (chromium launches
+post-install) is a different path and stays separate.
+
 Make Chromium and Firefox, `libreoffice-fresh`, GNOME Text Editor, Amberol, and
 GNOME Snapshot explicitly available in the live profile and application
 launcher. Text Editor and Snapshot are the maintained gedit/Cheese successors;
 HTTP remains assigned to Chromium. Pass = all six launch in the live session
 and the resulting ISO-size delta is recorded.
 
+**Settle before starting (`[human]`, and the reason this is not just a package
+list):** the ISO-size delta is the whole trade — Firefox *and* Chromium *and*
+libreoffice-fresh is plausibly +2 GB on an image people download, and the
+squashfs cannot be trimmed after the fact. Options are (a) ship both browsers,
+(b) one browser (Chromium, since it already owns the HTTP mime default and the
+installed template), (c) a lighter office story than libreoffice-fresh for the
+live medium only. Record the measured delta per option rather than guessing;
+`nomarchy-live` and the installed `nomarchy` profile need not carry the same
+set, and the live medium is the one with a size ceiling.
+
 ### 104. Runtime Airplane mode
 
 Add Airplane mode under System connectivity controls. It must disable Wi-Fi