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I need help in understanding something. I have access to an Apple MacBook Air with an M1 processor. I want to take full advantage
of the M1 processor. In order to do that, I must install Miniforge as it is the only IDE that is written for the M1 processor. Anaconda and Miniconda require Rossetta 2 to run. That set up is inherently a much slower run. It is not native.

Continuing in this logic several websites that claim to have instructions on how to install Miniforge for the M1 processor and they say to install Miniforge in a base environment ten create a virtual environment. A virtual environment for all of your native running apps and then use that virtual environment for python coding.

The next step is to load this virtual environment with some M1 native files and run Miniforge from that environment. But this is now in an virtual environment and Miniforge is installed in the base environment? These are two different environments why run Miniforge in the environment where it is it is not installed?

I can supply the references on installing Miniforge if requested.

Any hep appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Respectfully,

LZ

I got this one myself. Miniforge is not an app, but a framework and that is why it is installed first. That is before any virtual environments are installed.

Thanks anyway.

R,

LZ

Can see me do run with Miniforge in this post.
It's a version that use CONDA-FORGE by default.

If use pyenv then install is easy.

pyenv install miniforge3-4.10.1-3
pyenv global miniforge3-4.10.1-3

Then the usage as in post link.
For Mac look at The right and wrong way to set Python 3 as default on a Mac.