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I totally agree! Was thinking the same thing after our meeting last night. A lot of users are going to have Windows machines and might run into trouble.

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I agree too.

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👍 Planning to write these pages this afternoon.

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👍 Coolerino!

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See PR #12

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I noticed that the current iteration focuses on using conda as the primary installer rather than pip. Should I change the installation instructions for all the core libraries to use conda?

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@lcwheeler Yeah, I think so.

I actually struggled with this for a bit. conda still lags pip in many ways, but I think conda will eventually become the main way to pull packages. The Conda team is currently putting effort towards "merging" the two (not a technical merge). If that happens, when conda can't find a package it will automatically use pip to pull the package, but store all packages in one convenient place.

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Yeah, you're probably right. I haven't personally used miniconda/conda at all except on a cluster, so I've been thinking of pip since that's what I use. But, if we're encouraging people to set up their python environment using miniconda, might as well be consistent. I can make all the necessary changes to the pages describing scientific packages.

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I think the install page is done. Closing this issue for now.

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