Development Environment on the Pinebook Pro

[feoh]

@feoh , if you will use Manjaro, for VS Code you can use headmelted from AUR.

For IntelliJ things - don't use JDK8 as it's broken on aarch64. I think I'm using this package with the latest OpenJDK (was 13 at the time, now should be 14). OpenJDK11 is good as well.
IntelliJ IDEs need JDK to operate, so that' the only tricky bit with them.

You don't need to be so worried about the memory. Manjaro comes with zswap enabled by default if I recall correctly.

Correction - for JetBrains IDEs Not just IntelliJ specifically.

Very nice thank you for the advice!

I will definitely be running the stock Manjaro initially. I'm a big fan of Elementary OS so I'm keen on helping them get that running, but this will be a good opportunity to really get my feet wet with an Arch based distro as I've never tried one before.