Hello guys. I'm new to all of this. Right now, I am trying to install Arch Linux onto an old Acer Aspire 7730 G from 2007/2008 with a BIOS (no UEFI yet). Unfortunately, I know that old NVIDIA cards (a Geforce 9600M GT in this case) do not go well with modern kernels. Now, the installation was successful, but I'm experiencing some problems. 1. A login loop. Everytime I try to log in, even with the correct password, I get sent straight back. After being able to launch the desktop from the terminal, I tried to change the login manager, which got rid of the loop, but now the desktop is just a plain black screen. 2. when I try to use the sudo command as myself (my user), I am told that I have no rights to do so, even though I gave myself the power during the installation process. And when fumbling around with the permissions, something goes wrong every single time and I break it. I reinstalled multiple times, and even consulted ChatGPT (which obviously isn't helpful), and I'm still stuck. Anyone have an idea what to do? I use the Xfce desktop, maybe that's the issue? Just so you know what I tried: I mostly used AI to help me with the commands. When editing textfiles, I repeatidly got errors like: "you have no permission to edit this" and similar. After being able to finally give me the ability to use sudo, I changed the graphics drivers from nouveau to the allrounders, and now the laptop doesn't boot anymore. Just finished a new ISO stick, I am definetly going to reinstall, aiming to start clean. Is the issue with the black desktop normal, and are there any articles in the ArchWIki that could help? P.S: I'm relatively new to Linux, only have some experience with KDE Neon (which is where I'm wrtiting this rn), but I'm eager to learn. So please be so nice as to give me very exact instructions, if that's possible in anyway. Thx

Btw, is Arch installer the smart choice? Or should I manually do it? So I know every detail? And how long does that take for an arch noob?

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