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[-] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 152 points 2 months ago

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

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 months ago

Friendly reminder, that Emacs exists.

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 months ago

Hostile reminder that vi exists.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago
[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[-] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

I open nano more often than any other editor, and by a lot. I spend more TIME in vscode and maybe Kate, but lately I've been tweaking setups on a couple of machines.

sudo nano /that/cfg/file/u/thinking/.about
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[-] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

JED checking in from out wherever Voyager is at the moment (sorry about the lag)

[-] Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] coriza@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

*And vim~~/nvim~~.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

VSCodium would have the same Electron caching issues though, wouldn’t it?

[-] kayohtie@pawb.social 12 points 2 months ago

That'd be relevant if it were the issue and not specifically snap related.

[-] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago

Been using zed lately. Pretty similar ui, wildly different performance.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I've been using sed recently to edit my lines. Quite cumbersome but it gets the work done.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

Yeah, they really added DRM.

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

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

Well, that and the lack of telemetry and "phoning home" to Redmond. And that's a big one.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Whoops, I meant to say "only downside". Edited it

There are lots of positive differences

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Oh nice, I didn’t know, thank you!

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Friendly reminder that Kate has nothing to do with Microsoft at all.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 126 points 2 months ago

It's a snap problem, not actually a VS Code issue. Just another reason why snap is bad.

[-] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 63 points 2 months ago

I like that the article excerpt clearly says that it’s simply about files not being removed when the trash bin is emptied, and it’s a problem specific to the Canonical snap system.. Yet every single other comment in here rants about Microsoft spyware. Not many people read beyond the headline, lol.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

So you're saying it's Canonical spyware?

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

No, he's saying that canonical's snap sucks

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Well he's saying snaps are thrash.

So basically you're telling the snap app to put something in the trash, and snap says "it always has been. Nothing to do here"

[-] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 3 points 2 months ago

I can't really tell if you're joking or not but no, I'm saying that it's a bug, and at no point anything is sent off your computer

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Just generally piling on that snaps suck.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Funny how it's only a problem when using the Snap distribution.

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[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 months ago

My favorite fun fact about VSCode is it stores all its cache files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 33 points 2 months ago

Yay, it uses the XDG dirs... Wait, no, not like that.

[-] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Microsoft managing to make even their Linux software not achieve basic functions like...deleting files.

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

It's a snaps issue. Guessing you didn't read past the headline.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Wha???? A Microsoft product?!?! Nooooo.... c'mon

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