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Posted: **Sat May 22, 2021 10:20 am**

hello dear MX-experts - good day,

Anaconda vs Miniconda - which distri to choose ?

Is it possible to choose Miniconda with let us say the most important packages for

Python
BS4
pandas
requests
time
csv
re

and thinks like that - and besides

vscode
jupyter notebook
jupyter-lab

well - what do you say: see the two articles that may be interesting here _

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/454 ... -miniconda

In the Anaconda repository, there are two types of installers:

"Anaconda installers" and "Miniconda installers".

What are their differences?

Besides, for an installer file, Anaconda2-4.4.0.1-Linux-ppc64le.sh, what does 2-4.4.0.1 stand for?

answer: The difference is that miniconda is just shipping the repository management system. So when you install it there is just the management system without packages. Whereas with Anaconda, it is like a distribution with some built in packages.

Like with any Linux distribution, there are some releases which bundles lots of updates for the included packages. That is why there is a difference in version numbering. If you only decide to upgrade Anaconda, you are updating a whole system.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/451 ... e-anaconda - with the following topics coveres

- Update individual packages
- Updating just the packages in the standard Anaconda Distribution
- Why updating the Anaconda package is almost always a bad idea
- Leverage conda environments
- pip, PyPI, and setuptools?

well - which way to choose- what would you say - Anaconda or Miniconda!?

Posted: **Sun May 23, 2021 7:39 am**

I see three reasons to choose Miniconda.
1. It does the job as it is.
2. There's a specific guide to "expand" it to your needs.
3. It's so easy to "expand" it, a guide is obsolete.

The better Conda becomes, the more and more scenarios fall under reason #3. So far I choose Miniconda for reason #1.

Posted: **Thu May 27, 2021 10:12 am**

Haven't you asked about different dev editors a lot? And does it matter? Because no matter what you use
if you can't code, the dev environment sure ain't gonna help you.

https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/3127 ... nt-1586748

Posted: **Thu May 27, 2021 10:57 am**

The user is posting in Community chat, it may be useful to someone, and there is really no harm in spurring these convos.

No one is required to respond to or even look at posts, no harm no foul imho.

Posted: **Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:17 pm**

Many thanks dear SwampRabbit,

thank you for your comment - and for keeping up the forum-rulez - for jumping into this thread.

Fredster is a user from Linuxquestions.org

and he has got terrible habits - and the user at Linuxquestions-they know him very well: they have beaten him - they do not like him over there. in Fact: they call him what he is: a troll with ugly nasty habbits.

see ugly minded troll at linuxquestion. They treat him as a ugly Troll - see the threads

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https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175647896/

and so forth

poor guy - tbone... your lost now.

we know you and we follow you

Posted: **Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:15 pm**

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