Keep in mind that you also knew how to do this ahead of time (installing the CUDA-related libraries is overwhelmingly difficult if you haven&#x27;t done it before), and didn&#x27;t run in to any issues with numpy &#x2F; scipy version compatibility (I&#x27;ve had quite a bit of &quot;fun&quot; having to install numpy etc. from source in the past), and were presumably lucky enough to have a well supported GPU.<p>Is there a motivation for anaconda other than &quot;it includes the stuff we usually need&quot;?  It strikes me as somewhat strange that anaconda is so often recommended but it forces a divergence from using the mainline packages with vanilla Python.