VS Code is far from the best GDB GUI; in fact I would confidently say that everything about running and debugging in VS Code has been the biggest pain I have ever experienced. even with its recent decade of inattention from the community, Eclipse CDT is miles better than this thing. i’d wager that even Qt Creator is better than it

Anyways, JetBrains recently made CLion free for non-commercial, so that’s what you should use. it is obviously better than VS Code