From personal experience, ​I do have to say that for my day-to-day normal python *use*, I try to use a single environment (the default miniconda one) for everything. Most of the time, that's enough. I suppose that makes me a genuine beginner :-). Being able to conveniently installing a package into the current environment from within any interactive interpreter would definitely improve the beginner experience, I would say.

––Koos

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