Apex v0.1.4 (alpha)

[AlexKollar]

Apex v0.1.4 (alpha)

Release tag: v0.1.4a. The next major update, live-confirmed by Alex before this release was cut: the Updater release notes (#47), full Linux support (#48), and the docs formatting pass (#51).

Updater release notes

• When an update is available, the Updater screen shows that release's notes in a rendered panel, readable before you press Download & install. The words come from the GitHub release body; when the release page carries none, the matching section of this changelog stands in and the panel says so.
• A check that cannot reach GitHub — no network, or GitHub's rate limit — says that in plain words and shows no panel; it never pretends you are up to date.

One installer, every major Linux family

• The installer reads /etc/os-release, announces the family it found in plain words, and branches only its dependency step: the Debian family (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Mint and their kin) via apt, Fedora via dnf, and Arch via pacman. Everything else — hardware profiling, the model download, what an update keeps, the startup choice — is shared.
• Bazzite takes a user-space path: the installer never layers packages with rpm-ostree and never asks for a reboot. Her window is built inside a Fedora distrobox when one is available; without one, the window build is skipped in plain words and the complete core install — the bridge and the browser dashboard — still lands.
• An unrecognized distro is named, no package manager is guessed at, everything that can be installed user-space still is, and the core install completes.

Docs formatting

• Full markdown in the in-app Docs — headings, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, grouped blockquotes, inline code, fenced code blocks, and links — the same set the GitHub wiki renders, on both sides.
• Fenced code blocks are syntax-highlighted with the chat's per-theme palettes, in every theme.
• Prose enumerations are real bulleted lists and instruction sequences are numbered steps, in the in-app Docs and on the wiki alike.

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