[bshipp]

The download size is large but conda doesn't ruin any existing configuration unless you explicitly tell it to be your native python environment. Conda is set up as a self-contained set of independent environments. Why would your system care what's inside the Anaconda directory unless you explicitly add it to your PATH/bash?

[ur-whale]

I haven't touched that steaming pile of shite in a looong while, so - who knows - they might have managed to minimize the amount of havoc their wreak on their user's systems.

But ... I seem to recall ... Conda tries to install GPU drivers does is not? ... Is that not the case anymore?

Because if it still does, your theory about "Why would your system care" and all that doesn't really hold water.

[bshipp]

I use miniconda on Linux but it's never attempted to install graphics drivers on Windows.