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Anaconda
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 15 threads.
People raised many different problems with Anaconda, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Anaconda feels very slow to use2026-01-18
- Installer, interpreter and dependency resolution are very slow to get through2025-08-14
- Inconsistent experience, slow, quirky YAML config, poorly documented, poor ergonomics2025-02-19
- Upgrading the bundled editor pulled package versions that broke code and dependencies2025-01-12
- Its package manager has a badly broken constraint solver and lacks bundled compilers2024-09-02
- Virtual environments and conda installs often break, forcing developers to repair them2024-09-02
- Works until it breaks, then nobody knows how to fix it2024-09-01
- Installs unknown bulky binaries that override system libraries and break the user's environment2023-11-02
- Takes up to 15 minutes to resolve dependencies with no way to disable it2023-09-08
- Consistently buggy on both the UI and CLI2021-09-22
- Navigator's UI is horrible and operations take far longer than pip2020-08-08
- Users must activate and deactivate environments to run a specific Python version, which confuses beginners2017-12-25
- Install fails with special characters or spaces in path; default folder hidden causes problems2017-12-20
- Installing PyQt4 via Anaconda and pip keeps failing with ModuleNotFoundError, requiring lots of trial and error2017-06-14
- Unclear which buttons do what and which partitions get erased2017-04-04
- Bundled BeautifulSoup silently parsed HTML wrongly with no errors, hard to diagnose2015-12-23
- Confusing name: same 'Anaconda' brand used for both the Python package manager and the RHEL installer2013-01-30