thats actually my reason for switching away from vscode as im mostly working on machines without a discrete gpu AND utilize the gpu in my projects.. i cant have my code editor use 30% of gpu just to scroll text up and down (without any plugins installed) it's just silly XD
I have to use the laptop that my company gave me. I can't even use the OS I want, I'm stuck with Windows. On top of that, the VPN, antivirus and other garbage running in the background make the laptop really slow. It sometimes take 20 min for it to properly boot and be in a usable state.
That's kinda like a traffic engineer saying "I always get stuck in a massive traffic jam while driving back home. I know, we'll add another lane to the highway."
If a tool runs poorly on commodity hardware the solution isn't "get better hardware," but "improve the tool."
...okay, unless the tool absolutely requires specialized capabilities, like a neural network which needs a dedicated GPU for number crunching.
8 hours battery while doing heavy development on apple silicon hardware, while being the fastest mobile dev machine I've ever owned. Seriously not an issue.
i admire their silicon for its power efficiency, i truly and honestly do.
but i dislike the manufacturers' politics up until now.
if apple ever becomes a beacon of openness, transparency and sustainability: sign me up for the newsletter.
i'll even consider their ridiculous pricetags if apple became comparable to, let's say MNT.
in the meantime im considering to switch my personal laptop over from a T220 to a mnt reform
The tools you work with multiple hours per day and earn a living with should not be "good enough", they should be "best in class". And is a computer that is struggling to scroll in a simple web thing good enough? It's not good enough for your average user who wants to do light web browsing in Chrome, so why would it be good for a developer?
ok. guys? we are (at the extreme) talking about a texteditor here. there is no reason for source code tooling to utilize GPU and if you think otherwise, i have no reason to continue to talk to you :D good day
oh and one more thing:
i assure you, this computer is more than good enough for browsing websites and do whatever you would do as a regular user... idk how you came to the conclusion it was otherwise.
it's not even the case that vscode makes anything slow here, there is no ditch in performance, everything is smooth as butter, i simply report the GPU spiking up to 30% whenever i make vscode scroll text.
are you telling me this is acceptable when i can just as well use a mightier software tool that doesnt utilize the gpu at all?
on another note: how is it be acceptable to anybody to poop a browser into every other new app? element, discord, vscode, you name it, it has electron or whatever in it. i prefer versatile tools over simple ones just like the next person, but i know for a fact: we can have that without all the blingblong.
I use vscode as my primary editor