Update installation instructions to use miniforge/mamba #491
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A couple of links to NOAA NCEI are failing. These are due to impacts from Hurricane Helene and should eventually work again. |
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Ignoring the expected link check failures in order to finally get this in. |
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| 1. It's quicker and takes up less disk space. | ||
| 2. It encourages you to install only the packages you need in reproducible isolated environments for specific projects. This is generally a more robust way to work with open source tools. | ||
| 3. It uses `conda-forge` as the default channel for packages. |
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This is great, but might not mean much to the newbie. Here's my suggested addition:
| 3. It uses `conda-forge` as the default channel for packages. | |
| 3. It uses `conda-forge` as the default channel, which is our recommended way to get up-to-date, interoperable packages. |
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Oops, looks like I clicked the merge button too quickly.
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no prob, i'll commit and merge the suggestion by @brian-rose.
Addresses #391