Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes: > On 21 Sep 2026 09:17:29 GMT, Martin Schöön wrote: > >> I am a full time Linux user and moved from pip to conda for managing >> my Python life a few years ago. I am not an advanced conda user by >> any measure. For the most part moving to conda was a good idea. > > My impression of Conda is that it’s more suited to Windows/Mac > environments which lack native package management. For example, I > don’t see a package for Conda under Debian -- surely something as > useful as that is made out to be, would be supported. But it’s not. > > The most complex piece of third-party Python-based code that I install > is Jupyter, and that goes quite nicely into a virtualenv maintained > with pip.
I help run a Linux HPC system at a university and see Conda being used by research mainly from the life sciences. I think the main advantage is that Conda also provides non-Python dependencies, such as CUDA for GPU-processing or numerical libraries written in C, such as BLAS. If, as Martin mentions, you are using Windows or MacOS, this is probably quite helpful. However, if you are on a Linux machine, the OS packages plus pip within a venv will, in my experience, get you quite a long way. That, together with poetry, has been all I have needed for developing my own software with Python, but obviously YMMV, Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
