Creating environment in miniconda on Mac M1

Question

I recently got a new Mac with M1 processor. From the terminal I installed miniconda through home-brew. Then, I tried to create a new conda environment as usual using conda create --name my_env. Then, I try to activate the environment using conda activate my_env, but I get the following error:

CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
To initialize your shell, run

    $ conda init <SHELL_NAME>

Currently supported shells are:
  - bash
  - fish
  - tcsh
  - xonsh
  - zsh
  - powershell

See 'conda init --help' for more information and options.

IMPORTANT: You may need to close and restart your shell after running 'conda init'.

I obey of course, and I run conda init bash and close and restart my shell. However, when I then try to activate my environment I receive the above error again (and rerunning conda init bash does not fix the problem because it simply says 'no action taken'.

Questions:

1. Does anyone know why I still can't run conda activate?
2. Is it smart to even use miniconda for Python without Rosetta?

Many thanks

Answer 1

Mac changed the shell from Bash to Zsh a couple years ago. So, you need to do

conda init zsh