From 119f64243fde6897c118fc2ce54477b6e3d0731b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastien Bourdeauducq Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 10:49:39 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] manual: add warning about conda --- doc/manual/installing.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/installing.rst b/doc/manual/installing.rst index 31c2f6540..4cdc5bd3b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/installing.rst +++ b/doc/manual/installing.rst @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ If your favorite package is not available with Nix, contact us. Installing via Conda (Windows, Linux) ------------------------------------- +.. warning:: + If you can, use the Nix package manager instead of Conda. Conda is buggy, slow, prone to non-reproducible intermittent failures, and limited in features. + First, install `Anaconda `_ or the more minimalistic `Miniconda `_. After installing either Anaconda or Miniconda, open a new terminal (also known as command line, console, or shell and denoted here as lines starting with ``$``) and verify the following command works::