mamba

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 , which is an alternative client to conda and a million times faster. (If you are creating environments more than once per month or so).

> Conda has been a lifesaver for me in the past, but it got so slow in ~2019 This is why mamba [0] was created. It is a C++ reimplementation of conda for much better performance. mamba is a drop-in replacement of conda and can operate on the same anaconda, condaforge (and mambaforge) repositories. [0] https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba

Try mamba instead of conda [0]. It's really fast. The first time you have to run it as: conda install -c conda-forge mamba From then on, you replace conda with mamba. For example, if you are installing dask-cuda from the rapidsai channel you run it as: mamba install -c rapidsai dask-cuda At this point, mamba is just so much better and faster, that it's the first package I install in an Anaconda environment. [0] https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba

Mamba is a reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++. (quote from README at https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba, linked to in original post)