Quite a few conda packages have patches added by the conda team to help fix problems in packages relying on native code or binaries. Particularly on Windows. If

Quite a few conda packages have patches added by the conda team to help fix problems in packages relying on native code or binaries. Particularly on Windows. If something is available on the primary conda repos it will almost assuredly work with few of any problems cross-platform, whereas pip is hit or miss. If you’re always on Linux you may never appreciate it but some pip packages are a nightmare to get working properly on Windows. If you look through the source of the conda repos, you’ll see all kinds of small patches to fix weird and breaking edge cases, particularly in libs with significant C back ends.