This was the issue
"python-wheel optionally requires python-xdg: for wheel.signatures"
and
sudo pacman -Rc python-xdg did the trick!
Thanks @SGS and @jonathon
i have installed Garuda Dragonized Gamer edition, and i can't get the nvidia drivers to work.
I tried booting the installer of garuda via the unfree drivers option, hangs at boot.
with the free drivers option, it boots an i can install it, but i cannot install the nvidia drivers (after install and updates and a restart) because a package called python-xdsg is having a conflict with another package.
This a pretty basic and unrelated issue(unrelated to Nvidia).
Which package is python-xdsg having a conflict with? Basically, what is the error? It is probably a pretty simple fix.
Edit: Also, I believe the package is called python-xdg(not python-xdsg). You seem like a "newbie" as you proclaim. Do you have experience with Linux, or is this your first time using it?
I do think that if you are in the hardware detection app and you just click "Auto-Install proprietary drivers", it does not give you the option to remove python-xdg.
If that is the case, run sudo pacman -Syu in the terminal and you will get the option.
It turns out i was to early...i installed it via the hardware detection app, there was no error in the install process.
but my garuda won't boot now...at least it can't start the DE.
I can switch to a different console, and try operating from there....
what can i do? can it be, that the zen kernel is not compatibel with nvidia drivers? or is there something i overlooked?
(i cannot even start from a snapshot)
(My normal process is installing garuda -> updating --> reboot --> install nvidia drivers from the hardware detection app --> reboot)
i can try to install the whole system again, and post the output from the nvidia driver install process...