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I run Gentoo /w 4TB NVME and 64GiB RAM, and I probably couldn't point at anything that's any faster than anybody else's setup.
Except I can run a bunch of JetBrains IDEs at the same time (power woo!).
Jetbrains IDE's do love their fair share of memory. I can verify that.
I am starting to appreciate vscode more and more but it is a challenge to find the right plugins sometimes.
Gotta increase that heap size!