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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by zodiakzz on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:58AM (#26376282)
>VS Code is also very slow, you just don't notice it as much on today's machines.

Seemed to be running great on Core 2 Duo machines of the kids learning coding at a remote village I visited recently.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by wenc on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:37AM (#26376639)
In fact, I was using VS Code on 10 year old Core 2 Duo 2GHz machine up to a year ago. Without extensions, the responsiveness was fine -- definitely not as responsive as gvim, but otherwise no complaints.

When I added extensions, it did start to feel laggy but once I turned off all extensions save one (the language server extension -- in my case, Python) it was fine again.

With my current machine (a refurbed 2014 Intel i7 Dell desktop), VS Code is pretty responsive even with extensions enabled.

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