Thank you both for the input. I still have a lot of research to do before I try.

I only own a shitty laptop so not a ton of hardware options!

I'm also (very slowly) learning Python on the side. I'm assuming any option would be fine for coding/development environments, right? Probably putting the cart before the horse here..

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An easy web based coding environment is replit, fun to play around in

Ubuntu would be my choice too, as I prefer popular tools by default

+1 for replit

I can't code yet, but I still think it's dope.

FWIW, my development machine is a 13 year old laptop with 8GB of RAM and it works fast enough with Ubuntu MATE, a trimmed down Linux Distro derivative of Ubuntu using the lighter weight marco window manager instead of the newer gnome

I use it for my Python development of Nodeyez using VS Code as the IDE.

For systems with limited resources consider distros like Ubuntu Mate, Linux Mint, Manjaro

I run a lubuntu distro on an old netbook. Cant do video editing but it's great for office stuff