It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived version in 2019).

Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it.

Does this count as a dark pattern?

  • bionicjoey
    50·
    3 months ago

    Conda package manager is like pip on steroids. It’s great for science, especially when working on Linux servers where you don’t have root

    • ftbd
      30·
      3 months ago

      What’s the benefit over pip in a venv?

      • moonpiedumplings
        30·
        3 months ago

        Pip in a venv doesn’t get you non python tools.

        Conda also has venvs, for seperate environments for stuff as well.

      • bionicjoey
        20·
        3 months ago

        Conda environments can encapsulate more than just Python packages, it brings the pip/venv model to the ecosystems of many languages (R, Go, etc.), and does so at the user level rather than in a folder for one project. The other Anaconda stuff is pretty useless IMO, but Conda is exceptionally useful. Although I would echo what the other commentor said that the mambaforge version is even better than vanilla miniconda