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
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