TIL Anaconda isn't free anymore. I used it for a w...
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wide-midnight-78598
04/07/2025, 3:21 PMTIL Anaconda isn't free anymore. I used it for a weekend many years ago, and found it more convoluted (and system breaking) than just installing vanilla python - and I've never touched it since
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/
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gorgeous-winter-99296
04/07/2025, 4:04 PMThey reached out to us the other day... I ripped out conda from all repositories a few years ago, but some people still use it to manage venvs. So we're on the hook for $XX just for
python -m venvw
wide-midnight-78598
04/07/2025, 4:10 PMWait, what? How? Like - people use conda or miniconda JUST to create venvs?
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gorgeous-winter-99296
04/07/2025, 4:13 PMAs far as I could understand their usage, yeah. I kept poking so we could address any workflow concerns but that was the thing everyone focused on.
gorgeous-winter-99296
04/07/2025, 4:14 PMI think for data scientists it's very ingrained since for a long while it was the only way to access some tools and/or get the best performance...
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wide-midnight-78598
04/07/2025, 4:18 PMUgh, my soul
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careful-address-89803
04/10/2025, 3:57 AMyeah it was a good way of getting compiled things for windows without having to fight through MSVC
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