That must have been some strange dependencies. When I install anaconda on Windows, there's almost nothing to do to get Tensorflow, Torch, Jupyter etc going. Sam

That must have been some strange dependencies. When I install anaconda on Windows, there's almost nothing to do to get Tensorflow, Torch, Jupyter etc going. Same with Blender, it just plain works. And if not then that's not a packaging issue but rather a problem about portability because yes, some packages are system specific, and Windows is quite specific. One way around even those issues is to use either WSL2 or Docker desktop, maybe using VSC development containers or WSL remote. There's always a fringe of packages in every package manager that deosn't have the greates compatibility among different dependencies and systems. Python's ecosystem is no exception to that.