Ah okay. If you haven’t already done, look into virtual environments or venv’s and the pip package manager. You can create a venv and manage your packages individually for each project. It basically serves the exact reason you created VMs, to rule out possible conflicts.

Also instead of Eclipse I recommend either working just with a text editor like vim/ sublime that way you don’t even need a GUI or if you want a GUI you could try VS Code/ PyCharm. PyCharm is an IDE specifically made for Python.

BTW you already have a homelab so running your own version control tool like Gitea or GitLab could be interesting for you.

Is there a reason you use Jupyter and Eclipse? And specifically in their own VMs? Seems like a lot of overhead for just learning python