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by bjourne 1823 days ago
Make the best of the situation and learn how to use Emacs or Vi and write custom build scripts in Ant. It will still be painful, but not as tortuous as using IntelliJ. Btw, I use a desktop from 2010 (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition with 8gb ram) that runs Arch Linux and it is totally fine for development. Desktop computers generally remain performant much longer than laptops in my experience.