I'm also a long time conda user and have recently switched to pixi (https://pixi.sh/ https://pixi.sh/), which gives a very similar experience for conda packages

I'm also a long time conda user and have recently switched to pixi (https://pixi.sh/ https://pixi.sh/), which gives a very similar experience for conda packages (and uses uv under the hood if you want to mix dependencies from pypi). It's been great and also has a `pixi global` similar to `pipx`, etc the makes it easy to grab general tools like ripgrep, ruff etc and make them widely available, but still managed.