[trc001]

Latex is great, but installing it is a hassle. FWIW, typst is lean enough to install (very quickly) as a vscode extension. I’ve never had a useful Tex install that was less than like 4gb

[l2dy]

You may want to try https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic, which downloads files from TeXLive on-demand.