[Stable Update] 2025-12-15 - Kernels, NVIDIA, Plasma, Cosmic, Firefox

Evening, i am little bit exhausted first the X11 deprecation over the weekend and now this broken driver being pushed breaking my system 2 day in a row xD

whould be nice with a warning in the Pacman for the future untill then i will just check here before updating.

I am not a expert in Manjaro and would like some assistance with removing that faulty Nvidia driver from my system 580 has completly slowed down my old 1070 card to a point of inusability. please help. i have tried through mhwd and the associated UI and nothing works

sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-nvidia-575xx
Error: config 'video-nvidia-575xx' conflicts with config(s): video-nvidia
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
Removing video-nvidia... 
Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf Has lib32 support: true 
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/local/pci/video-nvidia/MHWDCONFIG Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300 Processing classid: 0302 
checking dependencies... 
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) 
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'vulkan-driver' required by steam-native-runtime 
:: removing lib32-nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'lib32-vulkan-driver' required by steam-native-runtime 
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'vulkan-driver' required by umu-launcher 
:: removing lib32-nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'lib32-vulkan-driver' required by umu-launcher

what do i need to install to revert back to 57X


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