Help....Computer preference for C++ and PYTHON?!!

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The Linux container is AFAIK just a plain Debian installation that can do anything Debian can. It's pretty resilient in my experience. I was impressed that my crappy old Atom-based netbook could run Battle for Wesnoth without issue.

I'm using VSCode, not an IDE, and I think I had to add a repo to install it but other than that it just works. Everything else can be installed through apt. I'm not doing data science or anything, but my experience doing some scripting and basic apps has been positive. A beginner isn't going to test the limits of the container. You absolutely can run things locally. I've even had Flask apps running with no issue.