lemmyng@beehaw.orgtoGeneral Programming Discussion@lemmy.ml•Why use VIM/Nano/Emacs over VS Code?
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1 year agoThere’s a long list of caveats when running VS Code over SSH. By comparison, text editors:
- Work on Alpine remotes
- Work on older distributions, and other *NIX systems
- Have no problems with SSH key passphrases or security keys
- Only require a few MB of memory
- When run in tmux are largely resilient to SSH connection issues
Donwside to 2: Your VM becomes harder to move between hardware, you lose snapshotting capabilities from a copy-on-write image.
5 is flexible, but has limitations. For example you wouldn’t want to run databases on NFS volumes.
If initialization time is the only problem with 4, you could create several smaller images on the disk. Create the first one, initialize the VM and set up an LVM volume on it, then start creating more volumes and extend the LVM volume.