For me, I like to use Jupyter on its own because I love Bash. Anaconda has its own package manager, conda, and Python has a package manager, pip of course.

I typically use Pip and bash for my notebooks, as I have no problem using it without Conda. Conda is the other package manager, but more importantly it’s an environment manager. It allows you to dump and load environments easily for dependencies. A lot of people prefer that route of doing things, it can be super convienent but I do not (it is kind-of personal preference and what you’re familiar with.) In addition, I use a lot of languages where PyCall doesn’t get along with Conda at all, and managing non-docker, env, or system-wide dependencies is horrible in that particular case. Me personally I like using the terminal whenever possible, as it makes my operating system experience a lot smoother, (plus I do a lot of terminal work.)

I’m not sure why it would be running VSCode unless you’re starting it from the browser. Michael Sarahan could definitely be of assistance.

And that’s exactly right, completely down to opinions! I love Anaconda regardless, as it makes it a lot easier for a lot of my team members that aren’t so Unix savvy.