conda vs. venv

[teuben]

in the current installation manual, only the conda venv is given as example.....

but lets say I'm a beginning early learner of linux (or mac) and I follow the instructions,

The command

     conda activate Amuse-env

gave me

     CondaError: Run 'conda init' before 'conda activate'

so now i'm like now what.... do I do that init?? I'd argue with some care.

so maybe also advertise the "simpler"

     python -m venv venv
     source venv/bin/activate

will work just as well (better for me)

The issue I have with conda is that it modified my .bashrc file, and now I'm stuck with that version of conda in all my shells, and I want a "module load' type approach where the shell is mostly clean.