full read: fix the set -e footguns a full run would have hit

Read the whole thing — 2392 lines of entry point and 2700 of libraries — looking
for what shellcheck cannot see. shellcheck itself is clean at error level; its
warnings are cross-file false positives and one deliberate tilde in a display
string. Everything below is a real defect.

── The Git section aborted on any machine where git was not already configured ──

`git config --global --get <key>` exits NON-ZERO when the key is simply unset,
and `VAR="$(git_get …)"` propagates that under `set -e`. So on a fresh machine —
the case this script exists for — the section died at its first assignment,
before printing anything, and took the remaining nine sections with it.

It passed every earlier test because those harnesses sourced the section under a
`bash -c` with no `set -e`. Verified now against a genuinely fresh account with
the real script: the section completes and writes a correct .gitconfig.

── An optional step failing aborted the whole run ──

Twelve functions ended on a command that can fail — `systemctl enable --now
earlyoom`, `systemctl restart systemd-logind`, `chsh`, `sysctl -w`, `chown -R`,
the oh-my-zsh installer, and others. Called as plain commands under `set -e`, any
one of them failing ends the script, so a masked unit or a container without
systemd would abort a 28-section run over an optional improvement.

They now return 0 explicitly and the callers verify the outcome instead — which
also fixed a lie: the sleep section printed "sleep disabled, logind reloaded"
whether or not the restart had worked. It now checks the targets and the logind
values and reports honestly.

── chown user:user assumed the primary group is named after the user ──

True on Debian and Ubuntu, which create a group per user. Not true for an account
from LDAP, or made with `useradd -g users`, or on an image with a shared group —
there `install -g <user>` fails with "invalid group" and the step aborts. Proved
it against an account whose primary group is `oddgroup`: the old form fails, the
new one gets ownership right. Eight call sites now ask `id -gn`.

── Also hardened ──

agent_path and current_editor gained `|| true` for the same reason git_get needed
it: "nothing is set" is an answer, not a failure.

Verified afterwards: shellcheck clean at error level, every section runs
standalone without aborting, and the two apparent failures in that sweep are
correct behaviour — Timezone and Git refusing an empty answer from /dev/null.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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commit e120dfa36e
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ install_config() {
local src="$1" dest="$2" owner="$3" answer
if [[ ! -f "$dest" ]]; then
install -D -m 0644 -o "$owner" -g "$owner" "$src" "$dest"
install -D -m 0644 -o "$owner" -g "$(user_group "$owner")" "$src" "$dest"
return 0
fi
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ install_config() {
;;
2)
cp -a "$dest" "${dest}.before-machine-setup"
install -D -m 0644 -o "$owner" -g "$owner" "$src" "$dest"
install -D -m 0644 -o "$owner" -g "$(user_group "$owner")" "$src" "$dest"
ok "replaced — yours is at ${dest}.before-machine-setup"
return 0
;;