I'm far less worried about raw performance, as I am in the workflow and software availability in general. I need to see if I can take out a Linux machine where I would take a Windows machine, and not go "darn, I can't do what I need to because I'm not running Windows". (And if I hit "darn, I can't do what I need to because I have an ARM chip", that's not a knock on Linux as an option.)
I can always get a more powerful Linux machine at another time. ;)
> (And if I hit "darn, I can't do what I need to because I have an ARM chip", that's not a knock on Linux as an option.)
Some binaries might not be available depending on what you do or what distro you use, but generally you could always compile the software yourself, it could take a while so as long as you are not in a hurry.
This. The fact that very few extensible editors came prebuilt with Arch for my Chromebooks a couple of years ago was the reason I picked up Vim, for example.
Though this probably is less of a problem now if you like VS Code.
I can always get a more powerful Linux machine at another time. ;)