title: Disk usage of conda environments appears greater than it really is when cheking directory properties?
body: <p>First of all I'm new to virtual environments and I don't come from a software background (also english is not my first language, so please spare mercy). I'm sure that conda environments are somehow optimized to not repeat the packages on disk, somehow using links instead. But when checking the used hard-disk space (by right click -> properties, on Linux Mint) it appears really high: over 2 GB (the env has python, numpy and pandas). </p>
  
  <p>Can anybody tell me (or point in the direction) of how this works?  </p>