Missing Home

Hi. I'm drrummer from Dublin.

A couple of nights ago, when my laptop was overheating somewhat and being a bit laggy, I had the bright idea that I should clean out some of the hard drive.

There are two main things I did:

1. I searched for ways to clean out unnecessary packages and associated software.
2. I deleted apps directly through the Software Manager.

I can't remember exactly what I did, but I ran some code I found online, such as:

• apt-get autoremove
• apt-get autoclean
• something about removing snap packages too.

Now all the files in my Home directory have disappeared. Even though I didn't delete any files. Is there anything I can do or any suggestion about what might have happened ?

Some other symptoms included

• that my system has been reset to defaults. For example my web browser doesn't have it's usual customisation, and the touchpad scroll direction had been reset. I'm really not sure what has gone wrong.
• Nemo now has a terminal type window across the top.
• Initially when I had the issue, it showed by original folders in the sidebar, with 'x' beside them. And no content.

And of course, I have little in the way of backups.