diff --git a/assets/installer/banner.txt b/assets/installer/banner.txt
index a7f2623..8754ff8 100644
--- a/assets/installer/banner.txt
+++ b/assets/installer/banner.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-                _ __
- _   _____  (_) /___  _____      ____  _____
-| | / / _ \/ / / __ \/ ___/_____/ __ \/ ___/
-| |/ /  __/ / / /_/ / /  /_____/ /_/ (__  )
-|___/\___/_/_/\____/_/         \____/____/
-
-         hardened. branded. yours.
+██    ██ ███████ ██ ██       ██████  ██████       ██████  ███████
+██    ██ ██      ██ ██      ██    ██ ██   ██     ██    ██ ██
+██    ██ █████   ██ ██      ██    ██ ██████      ██    ██ ███████
+ ██  ██  ██      ██ ██      ██    ██ ██   ██     ██    ██      ██
+  ████   ███████ ██ ███████  ██████  ██   ██      ██████  ███████
diff --git a/overlay/usr/local/bin/veilor-installer b/overlay/usr/local/bin/veilor-installer
index f534191..9f75049 100644
--- a/overlay/usr/local/bin/veilor-installer
+++ b/overlay/usr/local/bin/veilor-installer
@@ -180,10 +180,10 @@ prompt_error() {
 }
 
 main_menu() {
-    prompt_choose "Welcome. What would you like to do?" \
-        "Install veilor-os to disk" \
-        "Try live — desktop (KDE Plasma)" \
-        "Try live — shell" \
+    prompt_choose "Welcome" \
+        "Install" \
+        "live - (KDE)" \
+        "live - shell" \
         "Reboot" \
         "Power off"
 }
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ collect_answers() {
     disk=$(prompt_choose_pairs "Select install disk (will be ERASED)" "${disks_pairs[@]}") || return 1
 
     # ── Hostname ──
-    hostname=$(prompt_input "Set hostname" "veilor") || return 1
+    # Hardcoded for branded consistency. Post-install: `hostnamectl set-hostname`.
+    hostname="veilor"
 
     # Reject shell-special and sed-special chars in passwords. Generated
     # kickstart writes them via heredoc + sed substitution; bare $, ", \, `
@@ -240,15 +241,12 @@ collect_answers() {
     # ── Locale ──
     locale=$(prompt_choose "Choose locale" \
         "en_GB.UTF-8" \
-        "en_US.UTF-8" \
-        "de_DE.UTF-8" \
-        "fr_FR.UTF-8") || return 1
+        "en_US.UTF-8") || return 1
 
     # ── Confirmation ──
     prompt_confirm "About to install veilor-os:
 
   Disk:       $disk (will be ERASED)
-  Hostname:   $hostname
   Locale:     $locale
   LUKS:       set
   Admin pw:   set
@@ -572,13 +570,13 @@ banner
 
 while true; do
     case "$(main_menu)" in
-        "Install veilor-os to disk")
+        "Install")
             if collect_answers && generate_ks; then
                 run_install || continue
             fi
             ;;
-        "Try live — desktop (KDE Plasma)") launch_desktop ;;
-        "Try live — shell") drop_to_shell ;;
+        "live - (KDE)") launch_desktop ;;
+        "live - shell") drop_to_shell ;;
         "Reboot") systemctl reboot ;;
         "Power off") systemctl poweroff ;;
         *) drop_to_shell ;;