Overview of Anaconda¶
Anaconda is another popular way of installing and managing Python. Let us get an overview of Anaconda.
Anaconda is available for all major OS platforms such as Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat or Centos Linux etc.
Here are some of the capabiliies of Anaconda
Managing multiple versions of Python
Ability to setup and manage other programming languages such as R
Popular Data Science libraries are pre-installed
Ability to setup and manage developer friendly tools such as Jupyter, JupyterLab, Pycharm and more.
Even though it is straight forward to setup Anaconda, I would not recommend to setup unless your personal laptop is quad core and have 16 GB RAM. If your laptop have lesser configuration, there is a chance of impacting your laptop’s performance.