Conda has been a lifesaver for me in the past, but it got so slow in ~2019 (minutes+ to resolve dependencies) that I've switched back to pip whenever possible. Maybe things have been resolved now though?
E.g. https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/8087, https://www.anaconda.com/blog/understanding-and-improving-co...
> Conda has been a lifesaver for me in the past, but it got so slow in ~2019
This is why mamba [0] was created. It is a C++ reimplementation of conda for much better performance. mamba is a drop-in replacement of conda and can operate on the same anaconda, condaforge (and mambaforge) repositories.