Unable to uninstall steam as steam is not installed

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i was having trouble with steam and adding a non-steam game, so i went around the loop trying to get it to work, at some point uninstalling and reinstalling steam. but steam wouldnt uninstall, it just gave the error ‘Directory Not empty’ and removed the Open button for steam in gnome-software. pressing uninstall again failed again, with the error 'Unable to uninstall steam: ‘com.valvesoftware.Steam/x86_64/stable not installed’.
I have no clue what caused this, and no clue how to remedy it, as i want to be able to install steam via flatpak.

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system info (basically a fastfetch) below:

OS: Vanilla OS orchid 2.0 x86_64
Host: 750XFG (P07CFL)
Kernel: Linux 6.9.8-amd64
Packages: 652 (dpkg), 74 (flatpak-user)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
DE: GNOME
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1335U (12) @ 4.60 GHz
GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.25 GHz [Integrated]
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this was fixed after 2 reboots.

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