@mitu ok I can confirm that I am a dumb dumb haha… I actually have an pi3, for some reason I thought I had a pi4 which is why I was selecting the pi4 image. It now worked by selecting the correct image.

Thanks again for the reply. I’m going to leave this here so others can learn from my stupidity haha

I discovered that the Magic SysRq key Ctrl + Alt + PrtScr + r frees the keyboard after such errors. I don't know if it's a "good" way in technical terms, though. :)

@herb_fargus as a noob I'm guessing it worked for me because I was missing some file that came onboard with lightdm. I agree, is love to know why it worked. For now, just keeping my eyes crossed. 😁

@astanners I still cannot advise though. No idea the make up of that image (Although according to the link it did indeed come with games afair).