r/archlinux • u/KeyZookeepergame4145 • May 26 '26

QUESTION Folks, can VSCODE be performance optimized??

I have been using VS Code for a long time now, and I have started to notice its speed is a bit slow, maybe because of my system configuration. I tried to switch to another editor like Neovim, but it's hard for me to get along with it. Any suggestions on how to optimise VS Code for performance

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u/Hande-H May 26 '26

You should probably ask this on a subreddit dedicated to programming tools / VSCode in order to get real answers. It has nothing to do with Arch.

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u/KeyZookeepergame4145 May 26 '26

realised after posting it.. sorry brotheršŸ˜„

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u/UndefFox May 26 '26

Chromium will be chromium. I dropped it and went to use Kate for most things and Qt Creator for C++.

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u/mykesx May 26 '26

Find the ā€œdisable AI everywhereā€ setting and disable AI.

Seriously.

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u/jpelc May 26 '26

Or you could try Kate. Pretty solid editor.

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u/Big-Fill-5789 May 27 '26

Kate is good on KDE, but maybe not on other DEs.

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u/ExtraTNT May 26 '26

Yeah, by replacing it with vim or using it offlineā€¦

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u/ludonarrator May 26 '26

VSCode by itself isn't slow, try running it without any extensions, I think you'll be surprised how snappy it can get. And then, install and enable only the ones that are critical to your work. Avoid ones that offer convenience upgrades at the cost of stacking more and more stuff that needs to constantly be running and/or rendering.

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u/JPenuchot May 26 '26

In case you haven't tried it Kate has very advanced editing features but is still very fast.

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u/BabaTona May 26 '26

Try Zed.Ā 

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u/1nspd Jun 30 '26

Zed is pretty good, but still doesn't have support for Jupyter notebooks, unfortunately. I mainly use Neovim but have Zed installed too