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 ## Installation
 
-On laptop and personal computers, installation with [Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com) is the recommended approach because of the ability to create self-contained environments suitable for testing and analysis.  WEIS requires [Anaconda 64-bit](https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/). WEIS is currently supported on Linux, MAC and Windows Sub-system for Linux (WSL). Installing WEIS on native Windows is not supported.
+On laptop and personal computers, installation with [Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com) is the recommended approach because of the ability to create self-contained environments suitable for testing and analysis.  WEIS requires [Anaconda 64-bit](https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/). However, the `conda` command has begun to show its age and we now recommend the one-for-one replacement with the [Miniforge3 distribution](https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge?tab=readme-ov-file#miniforge3), which is much more lightweight and more easily solves for the package dependencies. WEIS is currently supported on Linux, MAC and Windows Sub-system for Linux (WSL). Installing WEIS on native Windows is not yet supported, but planned in 2024.
 
 The installation instructions below use the environment name, "weis-env," but any name is acceptable. For those working behind company firewalls, you may have to change the conda authentication with `conda config --set ssl_verify no`.  Proxy servers can also be set with `conda config --set proxy_servers.http http://id:pw@address:port` and `conda config --set proxy_servers.https https://id:pw@address:port`.