Things were mostly broken (i couldn’t get fluxbox to start) until i used tasksel to install Cinnamon so i could use a browser to look some stuff up (i only have one computer). I removed Cinnamon but whatever it left behind fixed my system enough that i’m now typing this in LibreWolf with not too many weird graphical issues. Some stuff doesn’t work at all yet, like my laptop’s function keys for things like brightness and volume.

So all in all, better than i thought this might go.

Thank you for that last bit. “Just do it” out to be the advice i needed.

That has occurred to me. My current computer has enough storage (assuming i don’t lose hundreds of GBs to system log files like i did back in Mint) and i already have dependencies from several DEs from when i was trying some out and didn’t know how to fully uninstall the ones i don’t want.

Nope, that doesn’t remove anything. 0 upgrading, installing, removing, or not upgrading.