Down that hole

  • voxel
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    11 months ago

    i always end up just going back to vscodium.
    liked Helix quite a lot more but still switched back after a while

      • voxel
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        11 months ago

        … because official vscode binaries are proprietary, released under EULA and include tracking components

        official vscode(oss) binaries still have tracking, they’re not properly configured and come without any marketplace. (arch ships a config file with openvsix though)

        vscodium comes without tracking and pre-configured with openvsix marketplace, and also provides it’s own branding.

          • voxel
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            11 months ago

            yes, but vscode’s source code is still released under an open-source license. (that’s what vscodium and code-oss are built from)

          • Milady
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            There’s the base vs code source code, which microsoft takes, adds a bunch of tracking, compiles it, and distributes that binary. If you compiled vs code yourself from source, you would not get the same executable.

            A bit like chrome, because i’m pretty sure chrome isn’t open source, chromium is. Could be wrong on that.