When I was working on the exercises, I found the Rocker project (https://rocker-project.org/ https://rocker-project.org/) + DevContainers in VSCode to be a winn

When I was working on the exercises, I found the Rocker project (https://rocker-project.org/ https://rocker-project.org/) + DevContainers in VSCode to be a winning combination. Combined with OrbStack (for Docker on MacOS) and Quarto (which is a nice Markdown-based alternative to Jupyter) I would go so far as to call the experience pleasant. I don't remember running into version-related problems. Maybe I didn't make it as far in the book as you.