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Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ For example, [The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts

[Anaconda themselves summarize this in a really detailed blog post](https://www.anaconda.com/blog/is-conda-free), which we use here to form the basis of this post.

This also applies to the Anaconda Navigator which is a desktop graphical user interface (GUI) that many people use.
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## Glossary

I want to define a few words which will be used heavily below:
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- Anaconda's "defaults" channel, which is used for the base environment.
It is used if one installs the `Anaconda` distribution or the `miniconda` distribution.
Anything that is "curated, built, maintained, and served by Anaconda's engineers on its secure cloud infrastructure", has these licenses.
- Anaconda Navigator

**Using the defaults channel can lead to you becoming legally required to pay Anaconda for the use the defaults channel.**

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Though, you could get rid of the default channel(s) using the `conda config` command as shown [in this Stack Overflow answer about switching channels from anaconda to conda-forge](https://stackoverflow.com/a/67708768).
This is good for new environments but it doesn't remove what you've got already installed (e.g., the `base` environment) and you may be still infringing the Terms of Services for Anaconda.

Therefore, the cleanest way would be to remove Anaconda completely and install [miniforge](https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/tutorial/installation.html#installing-miniforge).
Therefore, the cleanest way would be to remove Anaconda and Anaconda Navigator completely and install [miniforge](https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/tutorial/installation.html#installing-miniforge).
Unfortunately, there is no automated way of recreating all of your environments, and [this post about migrating from Anaconda to miniforge](https://it.martinos.org/help/migrating-anaconda-miniconda-install-to-a-miniforge-install/) details the steps that one has to follow to migrate.