Kate
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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Emacs Makes All Computing Simple.
OP said gentler, not please destroy my pinky (jokes aside emacs is great but there's a lot to configure)
You obviously mean Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping, no?
Maybe Gram (a Zed fork). And VSCodium as a popular choice but ultimately that's Microsoft. But there's a bazillion code editors in any Linux repository, some more general, some very good at a specific programming language.
You won't have many choices, VS Codium (VS Code fork), KDevelop, Eclipse and NetBeans.
Perhaps the KDE one, KDevelop, or maybe Eclipse. In the terminal I'd recommend Helix. It's sort of like vim but with more intuitive controls (personal opinion, don't kill me), and the functionality is built in to the core program rather than relying on many plugins. You only have to add an LSP server for code completion/popover documentation, just like VSCode
Yes, Eclipse. 20-year-ago me would have a stroke saying that (due to it being pretty 'heavyweight' for the PCs back then) but it's got support for any language you can think of with plugins and an app store for everything. But, no AI crap unless you seek it out, I presume.
I remember running Eclipse with 1GB of RAM 😭