| > Which distro, though? Linux Mint Vanessa, running the Mate DE. The program is a C program with a single Makefile. My workflow was (and still is, even on my desktop) using a Vim with three vertical splits: 1. A LHS split which is a terminal to run make and execute the program for testing 2. A RHS split with the program source code (single file program). 3. A middle split with the test input file and test output file (in horizontal splits). Although it is just a single file, on my other C projects I've used the same laptop, with the same 3-vert-split Vim, with multiple tabs, so up to maybe 16-20 source files open at a time for a single project. Building C projects is very fast, even on the Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM setup. Running a similar workflow but in VSCode on my desktop is less snappier than Vim on the laptop. I haven't tried doing a Go project on that laptop yet with VSCode, but I am tempted to see what happens :-) |
But now I can tell why you're experience was good. Mate is a phenomenal desktop environment certainly, so 2GB is probably more than enough for a daily driver.