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Great explination, though I'll be clear this was a friend of mine who installed plasma through the software center provided by mint with no additional repositories added. This, after seeing me do so on another system of theirs to show them plasma, the issue could very well have been what you've described.
Look at what happened with steam and PopOs which when trying to install wiped the desktop environment. Although this, ide breaking the machine, was localized solely on this singular machine. I do assume it was some irronious package mismatch that this person clicked "accept" on without reading what action would be taken
The person skipped a few steps when they did something stupid where they had to pass a flag for it to remove crap in the cli too
Does synaptics or even apt take care of these things automatically during install or do you manually need to configure every app you download?