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I'm still stumped why anyone tech savvy enough to code is not already on Linux and code berg.
Like outside of any job demanding otherwise that is
Career software engineer here, love terminal/CLI, hate using a mouse - keyboard shortcuts are king.
Every 3-4 months I try to switch to Linux and I lose 2-3 days trying 5+ distros only to arrive back on my debloated Windows because things just. don't. work.
Shortlist of things that don't work at all or don't work in a performant manner:
I really would love to make it work, but every time I try and something comes up and I ask online about how I can address it the answer is typically, "you can't" or "you just need to be OK without that"
I think you’re seriously overestimating many of the people hired and told to produce code.
As dumb this change was, companies that fire their employees over this are somehow even dumber.
I would actually support this if the code was generated by the Copilot plugin, but this is just adding a blanket “Sent from my iPhone” on all code commits wtf.
It's more insidious than that: by adding it to all even when they don't use AI, they give cover to people who are vibe-coding. "Nah man, I totally wrote it myself. VS Code just puts that message on everything."
I'm sure they added it by mistake 🙂
Shameless plug for codium: https://vscodium.com/
Afaik, they only remove telemetry and branding. Although they are lagging behind a little, so this change didn't reach vscodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2823
Copilot is part of the github extension I believe not base vscode
It's part of the git extension, not github, according to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 My understanding is that there is a separate extension for github: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/github
In any case, the point is that vscodium is still based on the same source code, and Microsoft can do anything with it.
Beyond VSCodium (which I have switched to since this news), what are everyone’s favorite alternatives that are easy to switch to?
I say easy to switch to because no one is jumping to Vim or whatever on this news. I don’t mean to offend the deeply Linuxed, but they aren’t.
Unrelated to this, I've been having issues with VSCode, that also showed up in VSCodium. I've been on old school vim with Konsole terminal tiling and honestly I'm not sure if I want to go back anymore. I'm learning new git tools every day, I'm keeping myself decluttered, and I'm wasting less time tinkering.
Vim/Konsole are an Apples to Oranges comparison. Modern TUIs are closer in feature parity. Personally I use Zellij with NeoVim and LazyVim as the base config. If you use an LLM, customization becomes easier.
Personal preferences are personal preferences though if VSCode is working for you.
Lmao, of course nobody is jumping to Vim. We're all on NeoVim now.
I may finally give Pulsar a go (a maintained Atom fork).
I really missed Atom when it died.
Maybe KDE's Kate. It's available for everything with a mouse and keyboard and works just fine. Not as ultra fancy as Codium, but if you need a quick and easy text editor that isn't all Electron bells and whistles... Kate.
Kate is nice but it's annoying to use with direnv/nix devshells unfortunately
I was many years user of JetBrains stuff. Tried vscode multiple times and last time I checked it was full Microsoft bullshit.
Finally I settled with Zed. It’s amazing. Still has some missing features but overall great experience once you set it all up to your liking.
On the flip side, it pushed me to move away from vscode. Whoever did this, thanks.
Genuinely curious, to what?
The plugin ecosystem of vscode is why I’m still here.
Neovim. Also there for the plugin ecosystem. Some popular feature rich presets, all customizable.
https://www.lazyvim.org/ https://astronvim.com/ https://nvchad.com/
Quick search suggests Emacs is the only other major rival to VSCode/Neovim so you're stuck with a TUI or a VSCode fork for a rich plugin ecosystem (non-athoritive statement, 30s web search).
