What Is The Difference Between Conda 'base' And 'root' Enviroments?

I have recently been pulling my hair out trying to organize my conda environments. I ended up reinstalling miniconda and I'm in a good spot. My question is this, when I run conda e

Solution 1:

root is the old (pre-conda 4.4) name for the main environment; after conda 4.4, it was renamed to be base. Most likely the reason you have a Jupyter environment named root is because you have a kernel installed with that name in it.