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Anyone installs Conda on my shit I hit the roof... I sympathize with the individual but cannot tolerate the act.

• mlvljr 6y ago
  Missed that "f" there, pal.
• emmelaich 6y ago
  Can you elaborate?
  • anxq11 6y ago
    Perhaps I can guess some causes of the irritation. Let me start by saying that on Windows conda is probably an improvement. On Linux, however, I do not see much benefit, unless you frequently install large binary C library based packages. To me it feels cleaner to compile these packages from source. You are sure to have no glibc mismatches etc. Conda, despite its advertising, does have library issues. C Libraries are shared between environments, compiling inside an environment can lead to surprising results when stale libraries are in the miniconda path. All in all, it feels like a second OS shoehorned into the user's home directory. Compared to apt-get it is really slow and bloated. It feels too intrusive on a Unix system. Also, I'm not sure if the repositories are secured in any meaningful way.
    • pjs_ 6y ago
      This is a perfect summary which exactly captures my frustrations. I should have said that on Windows Conda is a much more understandable choice.