Opening a new window takes presents a blank, black window that has more and more UI glitch in over a 2 second period. This is very frustrating for as a file-open delay when doing quick small edits. Gedit, on the other hand, does it in the time it takes to make the "fwoosh" opening animation (which can supposedly be disabled for faster start).
And for the record, there are no specs bad enough that a text editor should have a noticeable delay to open.
I dunno bout the graphical glitches but I run it on a machine far less beefier than yours (MacBook Air early 2014) and it runs fine for web dev on blogs and static sites and writing blog posts and small scale projects even with a bunch of plugins installed.
The only time vs code got unbearable to use for me was on this iMac late 2013 with an HDD drive I got on Craigslist a month ago but once I upgraded to SSD it was like a whole new computer, even running VMs and Kubernetes, VScode runs real nice working on large scale enterprise apps.
But yeah your computer sounds strong enough to handle any IDE so specs not the problem.
Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.2GHz (12 threads, Coffee Lake)
64 GB 2666MHz DDR4 RAM (4x Kingston KHX2666C16/16G)
SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ 512GB NVMe PCIe SSD
GPU is just the built-in UHD Graphics 630
Opening a new window takes presents a blank, black window that has more and more UI glitch in over a 2 second period. This is very frustrating for as a file-open delay when doing quick small edits. Gedit, on the other hand, does it in the time it takes to make the "fwoosh" opening animation (which can supposedly be disabled for faster start).
And for the record, there are no specs bad enough that a text editor should have a noticeable delay to open.