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Vim starts in around 450ms with LSP and NeoVIM on RPi4/4gb/USB-SSD caliber of workstations. It will be 10x faster than VSCode on average, at anything.

Something like X11+mesa with AwesomeWM and Rofi+Kitty or Terminus running tmux will give you window/buffer management on crack to support your nVIM workflow.

Try that combo. It is a lean and mean combo.