as cool as plymouth is, it just doesnt work super well. going to need to find another alternative, perhaps a login manager that supports pre-login animations

modules/hardware/boot.nix

@@ -6,22 +6,7 @@
         efi = {
           canTouchEfiVariables = true;
         };
-        # Can press any key to get the generation list, otherwise just load the first one cause it's probably what you want
-        timeout = 0;
       };
-
-      # Silent Booting
-      consoleLogLevel = 0;
-      initrd.verbose = false;
-      kernelParams = [
-        "quiet"
-        "splash"
-        "boot.shell_on_fail"
-        "loglevel=3"
-        "rd.systemd.show_status=false"
-        "rd.udev.log_level=3"
-        "udev.log_priority=3"
-      ];
     };
   };
 }

modules/ricing/default.nix

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
   imports = [
-    ./plymouth.nix
   ];
 }

modules/ricing/plymouth.nix

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{
-  config,
-  lib,
-  pkgs,
-  ...
-}: let
-  rices = {
-    basic = {
-      enable = true;
-      themePackages = with pkgs; [
-        (adi1090x-plymouth-themes.override {
-          selected_themes = ["deus_ex"];
-        })
-      ];
-      theme = "deus_ex";
-      extraConfig = "";
-    };
-  };
-
-  rice = let
-    enabledSet = lib.filter (set: config.ricing.${set}.enable) (lib.attrNames rices);
-  in
-    rices.${lib.head enabledSet};
-in {
-  boot.plymouth = rice;
-}