I also made the mistake of installing a full conda distribution.. worst experience ever! Miniconda is (almost?) stand-alone though. It is a minimal install and

I also made the mistake of installing a full conda distribution.. worst experience ever! Miniconda is (almost?) stand-alone though. It is a minimal install and you admin your packages through the command line. I'd say, just uninstall conda completely from your system and try from scratch with miniconda [1]. 1: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html