Some of it's culture and some is certainly bloat. VS has slowed down a lot in the last eight years, and VS Code was born slow. But the performance between the

Some of it's culture and some is certainly bloat. VS has slowed down a lot in the last eight years, and VS Code was born slow. But the performance between the RPi and the Windows machine shouldn't be comparable at all, and if the RPi is coming out ahead for anything more trivial than opening a terminal window, I'd look at the setup of the Windows machine. There is plenty that can get effed up there.