Used to do DevOps before they even called it that way: Linux. Python. Perl. Java. Docker. For fun and profit. CTO level generalist working for a mid-sized tech-centric company.
Dresden, Germany
I'd possibly go for Ubuntu, Fedora or Elementary. Given your description, all you need is a simple desktop for running Chrome and VSCode so that should work on any distribution you can lay your hands on, and these three seem the most straightforward to get started with, out of the box.
All along the lines, however, I'd reconsider either my choice of tools or my hardware setup; both VSCode and Chrome with a certain amount of applications open are utterly heavy these days and might be just too big for only 4 gigabytes of RAM, no matter which OS you use.
I'd possibly go for Ubuntu, Fedora or Elementary. Given your description, all you need is a simple desktop for running Chrome and VSCode so that should work on any distribution you can lay your hands on, and these three seem the most straightforward to get started with, out of the box.
All along the lines, however, I'd reconsider either my choice of tools or my hardware setup; both VSCode and Chrome with a certain amount of applications open are utterly heavy these days and might be just too big for only 4 gigabytes of RAM, no matter which OS you use.
Yeah that's true, so much true. I might need to just update RAM hardware. And try everything else.
Thank you for sharing your experiences