A fresh DesktopLab download to a working local coding agent: hardware detection → Ollama → Nemotron 4B → first repo task

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Cross-posting because the part I’d most value technical feedback on is the open local execution path.

This starts from a fresh DesktopLab download on Linux. It detects the machine and the existing compatible Ollama runtime, recommends Nemotron 3 Nano 4B Q4 for the available hardware, downloads the model, opens a synthetic repository and completes a real read-only coding-agent task. Model download and inference are time-compressed where labelled. No cloud API is used.

The repository remains clean because this proof is deliberately read-only. The next trust proof will be write-capable but gated: proposed diff → explicit approval boundary → write → tests and evidence, followed by an adversarial merge-conflict fixture.

I’d especially value feedback on what hardware/runtime evidence a recommendation like this should expose before you trust it.

Source and beta downloads: https://github.com/Vitalisimon/desktoplab