Recommend mambaforge?

[maxnoe]

Readme recommends a full anaconda install and then install mamba and creating an environment.

This has several problems in my experience:

• a lot of wasted space for the full anaconda env
• A large base env will inadvertently make upgrading conda/mamba hard due to "solving environment" issues
• Installing mamba itself might fail due to conda being slow solving the large environment with all the packages in conda-forge

Solution: Let people install mambaforge (Miniconda with preinstalled mamba from: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#mambaforge)

[vuillaut]

Alternatively, we could use the libmamba solver: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-community

But it's still tagged as experimental - we might run into issues?

[maxnoe]

Ha, that a development I didn't know yet.