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Is anaconda download page considered dark pattern? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived version in 2019).

Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it.

Does this count as a dark pattern?

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Conda package manager is like pip on steroids. It's great for science, especially when working on Linux servers where you don't have root

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What's the benefit over pip in a venv?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Conda environments can encapsulate more than just Python packages, it brings the pip/venv model to the ecosystems of many languages (R, Go, etc.), and does so at the user level rather than in a folder for one project. The other Anaconda stuff is pretty useless IMO, but Conda is exceptionally useful. Although I would echo what the other commentor said that the mambaforge version is even better than vanilla miniconda

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