VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

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VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files - Lemmy NZ

Lemmy

Friendly reminder that VSCodium exists, and nobody should be using Microslop’s spyware version anyway.

The only difference downside really is the occasional extension that needs a manual install.

I’ve been trying out VSIX Manager for my extensions so that I can keep track of which ones I want to install on each machine. This can make it easier to install the weird extensions that you can’t install otherwise

open-vsx.org/extension/zokugun/vsix-manager

Open VSX Registry

Not the only downside - some MS developed extensions, e.g. their Python integration, have to be patched to work with VSCodium: github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641

Yeah, they really added DRM.

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