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Following up on a recent post on Distrobox...

For those using VSCode with Distrobox, how do you all do it? distrobox wiki suggests two approaches: flatpak + dev containers and running vscode from within distrobox.

Which do you prefer and why?

I've experimented with both and got both running with Wayland. Using the latter approach (vscode within distrobox), I couldn't quite get the running instances to be recognized by GNOME shell as the same vscode app that launched it. It shows up as code-url-handler, and doesn't share the same icon on the dash. The flatpak approach doesn't seem to have this issue.

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[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use VSCodium in Distrobox daily on Alpine Linux, and it works flawlessly. I don't experience the problem you encounter but I use KDE Plasma which I suppose handles it differently.

I am however looking into slowly moving over to KDE's Kate for development, my laptop really doesn't like opening multiple chrome instances for the various instances of VSCodium and then also an Android emulator on top of that.