[IHLayman]

Anaconda was a good idea until it would break apt on Ubuntu and make my job that much harder. That became the reason _not_ to use Anaconda in my book.

venv made these problems start to disappear, and now uv and Nix have closed the loop for me.

[StableAlkyne]

How did it manage to do that?

Not saying it didn't, I've just never ran into that after a decade of using the thing on various Nixes

[northzen]

Why don't you use pixi, which has the best from these worlds?

[nicornk]

I agree. Pixi solves all of that issues and is fully open source including the packages from conda-forge.

Too bad there is nowadays the confusion with anaconda (the distribution that requires a license) and the FOSS pieces of conda-forge. Explain that to your legacy IT or Procurement -.-