i think you got lucky and fell into best practices on your first go
> except for any binaries or CUDA related things from conda
doing the default thing with cuda related python packages used to often result in "fuck it, reinstall linux". admittedly, i dont know how it is now. i have one machine that runs python with a gpu and it runs only one python program.
> doing the default thing with cuda related python packages used to often result in "fuck it, reinstall linux"
From about 2014-17 you are correct, but it appears (on ubuntu at least), that it mostly works now. Maybe I've just gotten better at dealing with the pain though...
> except for any binaries or CUDA related things from conda
doing the default thing with cuda related python packages used to often result in "fuck it, reinstall linux". admittedly, i dont know how it is now. i have one machine that runs python with a gpu and it runs only one python program.