Conda is nice for those of us stuck in government or similar roles with really locked down systems. Without conda, I'd be stuck with a global Python 3.9 and without the ability to install the non-python dependencies like ssl required for various libraries or to run jupyter locally.
Pixi is installable under the same conditions and uses the same repositories as conda, so unless you are specifically allowed to use conda and forbidden to use anything else this isn't an argument for conda.
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