[krferriter]

`uv` is great for this because its super fast, works well as a globally installed tool (similar to conda), and can also download and manage multiple versions of python for you, and which version is used by which virtualenvironment.

[Grimblewald]

While my uv use is still early days, i would second this recommendation. I've found it to have the functionallity i miss from conda in venv, but faster and more reliable than conda.