Given that you should use what is comfortable to you, the distro must also be customizable to fit the environment that you need. Personally, I prefer Pop!_OS since you can get started immediately. Further customizations can be easily added.
Also if you need a more complex highly-customized dev environment, you might want to check out containerized IDEs like theia.
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Given that you should use what is comfortable to you, the distro must also be customizable to fit the environment that you need. Personally, I prefer Pop!_OS since you can get started immediately. Further customizations can be easily added.
Also if you need a more complex highly-customized dev environment, you might want to check out containerized IDEs like theia.