I'm not sure, it might have changed since, but my personal experience was different.
Tried using zed on Linux (pop os, Nvidia) several months ago, was terribly slow, ~1s to open right click context window.
I've spent some time debugging this, and turns out that my GPU drivers are not the best with my current pop os release, but I still don't understand how it might take so long and how GPU is related to right clicking.
Switched back to emacs, love every second. :)
I'm not sure if title referring to actual development speed or the editor performance.
p.s. I play top games on Linux, all is fine with my GPU & drivers.
It seems Vulkan support, the only GPU rendering API Zed uses, isn't well supported by any of the Debian derivatives. The libraries are only installed and working in Ubuntu 24.04 in Gnome Wayland sessions for example (Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't have KDE new enough for Wayland support).
And there are also bugs in the Zed automatic GPU selection that will intermittently cause it to pick the wrong GPU in a system with multiple (E.g. a discreet GPU and a motherboard with integrated graphics). Vulkan can only run on the primary rendering GPU, but it doesn't always pick that one, and doesn't support trying any others after the first one or picks (it seems), so it just falls back to emulated.
For reference, I had to spend 4 days getting Zed to install as part of a Nix home-manager config with nixGL because out of the box it failed to use the GPU on 2 of 3 systems. But after forcing it to use the right GPU with a wrapper that had Vulkan support (a nixGL wrapper) all 3 systems worked fine (so it's a Zed assumption/bug problem).
Also, the fact that Zed without the Vulkan supported hardware rendering is unusably slow is a big problem. It's far slower than anything else on the system and cranks the CPU to 100 with its "emulated GPU" workaround. That's not acceptable, they really need to get at least basic performance for the seeming majority of target systems that don't/can't meet the hardware rendering needs.
I also tried Zed on Linux a few months back, and had GPU/driver issues, so it was either slow or didn't run. Tried it just now and it worked right out of the box, and it's incredibly fast.
I will keep playing around with it to see if it's worth switching (from JetBrains WebStorm).
I know they started on MacOS and their Linux support is relatively new, so I wonder if that "fastest" label is really only applicable to MacOS currently.
Tried using zed on Linux (pop os, Nvidia) several months ago, was terribly slow, ~1s to open right click context window.
I've spent some time debugging this, and turns out that my GPU drivers are not the best with my current pop os release, but I still don't understand how it might take so long and how GPU is related to right clicking.
Switched back to emacs, love every second. :)
I'm not sure if title referring to actual development speed or the editor performance.
p.s. I play top games on Linux, all is fine with my GPU & drivers.