starting the career as a web developer i hit the solid wall of :“production projects are massive” unlike the project i used to do while studying
realizing again my laptop is suffering a massive project in vs code and at the really start i couldn’t afford a huge upgrade so i had to figure it out
landed 2 main pieces of open source that saved my laptop &amp; my career
1- simply switching to linux (simple and friendly distro like ubuntu) was the biggest upgrade i did and it was just setting me free giving my old machine a boost
starting there gave took me to the second one
2- Zed … the text editor
for me … never felt such a speed &amp; performance in any text editor with a decent GUI and great AI integration and actually built in features that you have to add then as extensions in VS code … not to mention … it’s built in Rust and it’s open source … so you do what you need and they have a really active community in discord growing fast
the plot ? i upgraded my laptop yet still on ubuntu and zed :)

Shennawy

A web developer shares how switching to Linux (Ubuntu) and the Zed text editor saved their career when they couldn't afford hardware upgrades. The performance boost from Ubuntu on an old machine led them to discover Zed, a Rust-built open source text editor with fast performance, built-in AI integration, and an active community. Even after eventually upgrading their laptop, they stuck with both tools.

Open Source Saved my career