I use

• a VMware Fusion VM: Linux Mint

• IntelliJ IDEs / Neovide (NeoVim frontend).
  

Usually Apt and Nix (link).

- Pretty standard. Very productive setup!

Anaconda / conda > pip

• conda has a package for Jupyter Lab (link)

conda install conda-forge::jupyterlab

PyCharm + GitHub Copilot

• PyCharm has good debugging options. You can use the JetBrains toolbox.

Neovide (on Linux Mint via Nix)

• Doesn’t need all that configuration. Well suited for opening large files and jumping to a specific line number (:1234)

marius@mleng:~$ which nix
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin/nix
marius@mleng:~$ nix-shell -p neovide
...

Linux Mint is rather conservative, which is good. As stable as Debian. Nix builds separate environments for modern packages like Neovide etc.