If you can actually write in the command line (this happened to me too, but I couldn’t actually log in to use the command line), try the command startx
to start the graphical environment…or whatever is the equivalent command for the environment you installed.
Hah, good to know that even on programming@programming.dev there are people who agree that stack overflow moderation is too draconian to ask questions in anymore. It’s a good resource, though, so an LLM will probably be the answer to make the knowledge base more usable without angering its elder gods.