> With plain venv it’s hard to maintain multiple different Python versions on the same machine
Ironically, given the usual software dev experience on Windows vs. Unixy systems, this is not a problem with the standard install on Windows with the py launcher.
It's not ironic at all; traditional Linux package management is actualy really bad. On a Linux system you can basically only have one version of anything installed at the same time.
I have multiple Python versions on both my Macbook M1 and my Linux laptop, with several dozen venvs. I honestly don't see why others are having so many issues.
Presumably they're not managed by your system package manager? Or you have one of the rare and relatively new distributions (certainly not typical Linux) that can handle that smoothly, like NixOS?
