An Update Borked My Linux System. How Did I Fix It?

This morning, I decided to update my Linux workstation. In the middle of the updates, something went horribly wrong. Either I hit something I shouldn't have on the keyboard, or my window manager crashed on its own. Either way, the window manager killed itself in the middle of an update which included a kernel update...

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