That’s a really neat carpet. Any chance you’ve got a pic of the whole thing? I like the design.

Which will then probably tell you that it conflicts with vulkan-mesa-device-select and asks if you want to replace it. Which might either work or just get you another conflict because vulkan-mesa-device-select is required by some other package.

Yeah, basically. This was my result:

sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers-1:25.3.5-2 and vulkan-mesa-device-select-1:25.2.6-2 are in conflict. Remove vulkan-mesa-device-select? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing vulkan-mesa-device-select breaks dependency 'vulkan-mesa-device-select' required by lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select
:: removing vulkan-mesa-device-select breaks dependency 'vulkan-mesa-device-select' required by vulkan-intel

Btw… pacman -Qi <package name> usually tells you anything you need to know about a package. In this context mainly why it was installed (as a requirement for which package) and which other packages are required as a dependency.

So maybe you should take one step back first. Check why 'vulkan-mesa-device-select` was installed in the first place.

Okay so I tried that and got:

pacman -Qi vulkan-mesa-device-select
Installed From  : cachyos
Name            : vulkan-mesa-device-select
Version         : 1:25.2.6-2
Description     : Mesa's Vulkan Device Select layer
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.mesa3d.org/
Licenses        : MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND SGI-B-2.0
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : glibc  libdrm  libxcb  wayland
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select  vulkan-intel
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 104.43 KiB
Packager        : CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>
Build Date      : Wed 29 Oct 2025 02:12:36 PM
Install Date    : Fri 07 Nov 2025 07:55:30 PM
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Seems it’s necessary, so I tried sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-device-select and it gave me no trouble, so then I ran sudo pacman -Syu and after just under 10 minutes everything updated! Seems to work again. Thank you very much for the help, I really do appreciate it.

Answering “n” gives me the same error still. Same with if I say no for both questions. In fact, any combination will always result in the same error.

Probably a dumb question but how would I go about installing vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers?

I tried that one too and it gave me the same error.

Thanks for all the info. I tried manually replacing the mirrorlist but I’m still getting the same warnings and errors. I also tried -Syyu but still no dice.

What was this you were saying about keyfile? That doesn’t seem to be something I’m familiar with.

I think a lot of industries call their thing a gun actually. We use an android phone with a scanner at work for all sorts of things (product inventory, order management, assigning electronic tags, article lookups, etc) and most of us call it the gun. Its predecessor did look like a gun, so the origins of the name make sense, the name just stuck after we switched to a phone with a built-in scanner. We also have a date gun, which prints off best before date stickers.

Yeah, that’s the one. If you can find it for cheap I’d say go for it. It’s a bit shorter and the map is a bit smaller which I personally liked, and it had some gameplay aspects I preferred, but they’re close for me.

Have you tried AC: Origins? Similar gameplay. Most people would probably say Odyssey was the better game of the two but they’re pretty close. I personally preferred Origins but liked them both.

Oh huh, that’s good to know. If I decide to switch from XFCE I’ll go to KDE.

Yeah I remember reading about that recently. I did consider it but figured this would be a good time to try something new. I may eventually switch but I’m liking the change. Plus I still use KDE on my main machine.

I just switched to Debian on my secondary pc, with XFCE as the DE. My main pc is on an Arch-based distro (CachyOS) with KDE so it’s a bit of an adjustment but I’m liking it so far. My secondary pc is mostly just used for watching movies anyway so it doesn’t matter too much, but I like it better than Mint which is what it was running before. I still think I prefer CachyOS but it’s nice to have options.

My wife trained one of our cats to play fetch just a few days ago! She absolutely loves it now (the cat, not my wife. Though my wife does still have fun with it).

I feel that, I haven’t had time to play a game in over a month.

Elden Ring is probably my favourite game ever. It’s got some tight competition but whenever someone asks me what my absolute favourite game ever is, I default to Elden Ring.

I’ve got two computers. My gaming pc is running CachyOS, and my other computer which is basically for messing around with and watching movies, used to be running Mint, but I just today switched over to Debian with XFCE as the DE and I’m liking it so far. Super bare bones but that’s what I wanted for this computer anyway so it works great for me.

There’s a Tetris clone you can play in the Linux terminal, I’ve messed around with before. Pretty fun. I can’t remember what it’s called now but I’d recommend looking it up if you like Tetris. It’s pretty cool.

I’ve never been good at Tetris. My wife, on the other hand, used to do competitions. We’ve played Tetris duel or whatever it’s called (the two player competitive one) and she completely destroyed me every time.

I’ve been considering this actually.

On my main pc, which I mostly use for gaming, I’m running CachyOS, which was great when I actually had time to play games, but I’ve got a kid now and just got promoted to manager so I don’t really have a lot of time these days. I have a second pc which is technically a laptop but the battery is completely gone (and it’s also somewhat old now) that I’ve been planning on using more for office-y stuff. I’ve currently got it running Mint but I’m heavily considering hopping to Debian.

Finally someone else who agrees 1 was better than 2. I still enjoyed 2, and I also had fun with 3 even though it was definitely the worst in the trilogy, but everyone seems to hype up 2 these days as the peak and I don’t quite get it. 1 was clearly the best imo.

Only briefly and I don’t own it. Can’t remember how I played it now, probably at a friend’s house or a demo or something. I’d consider picking it up for sure.