Differences

[ZeppelinCH]

What's the difference between the pre-built version from the release page and installing it via the command line? I'm aware it's probably outdated, but I want to know a bit deeper about it

[VoxelCubes]

The pre built binaries are simply pyinstaller bundles, you can look at the makefile to see how it's made. There is no conversion to C code, compilation, or anything else fancy, it just puts a python install and all the necessary dependencies into a folder and adds an executable to launch it. Basically a frozen virtual environment. Look up pyinstaller for deeper technical info.

The only relevant difference for you is that you can't change the packages it comes with, so no updating individual packages or installing a cuda version of pytorch (which is 5GB fat, too large for github to host).