I would just start over before you get any more attached to it.
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Just do the installation again...fixing the permissions maybe easy or extremely hard, depending on how far the problems go. And I don't think you will learn much besides of how the chown command works.
Not with modern package management systems. In the pacutils package is the pacrepairfile tool that is specifically made for repairing file permissions https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacrepairfile.1
I think the point a lot of people are making is that because it's a fresh install it might have been quicker and faster to just reinstall versus whatever kind of checking and troubleshooting you'd have to do with the permissions.
Whenever I break something and can't figure it out, I just make sure anything important is backed up and do a clean reinstall. Someone else might have a better answer though
Good on you for getting it fixed. One of the reasons Linux is a great OS in my opinion is that everything is in the file system and not in some arcane hidden thing. So every problem is solvable without a reinstall if you're motivated enough to figure it out.
It depends on how interested/motivated you are in finding out exactly why things aren't working. If you just want a working system without the hassle, since it's a fresh install, I'd recommend just reinstalling.
I'm surprised it booted lol