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People more knowledgeable than me have offered better advice than I could. Just wanted to stop in to say that sucks man, I'm sorry you're struggling with it. Folks are right though, arch is one of the most technical and complicated places someone could start :(
It's unclear from your comments how much personal data may have been lost. I hope not much- in the future before you make big changes be sure to back up your personal data, even if its just copying stuff to a flash drive
I'm wishing you luck with your fresh start on a new distro. Most distros these days are super straight forward, plug and play operating systems with a graphical installer that does all the work for you- arch is one of the handful of exceptions