fuck I installed a KDE metapackage and removing the metapackage didn't also remove all this fucking KDE
my two biggest fears are alienating everyone I've ever loved, and accidentally installing KDE and not being able to remove it, and let me tell you, I'm not on a roll tonight
really loving the energy the people trying to tell me that KDE is great actually are bringing here
welp, I uninstalled something important on accident trying to get rid of all the stray KDE packages, and now my GUI is gone. I guess this Linux install is probably toast now
it is fixed now. I sleep