With the exception that the conda tool itself is so darned slow it can make you give up in frustration rather than wait another ten minutes to be told that the

With the exception that the conda tool itself is so darned slow it can make you give up in frustration rather than wait another ten minutes to be told that the packages conflict. So use https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba , which is an alternative client to conda and a million times faster. (If you are creating environments more than once per month or so).