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The Raspberry Pi is meant to be educational for a people with a range of skills, and they did say in their issue tracker that by adding the repo, it means every
by DrBazza 6y ago
The Raspberry Pi is meant to be educational for a people with a range of skills, and they did say in their issue tracker that by adding the repo, it means everyone has easy access to it. I expect they'll be able to add further intro articles and blog posts and make a Pi even more accessible.
I suspect it's easier for tech savvy people to remove it, if they really care, and rather more difficult for relatively non technical people to figure out how to add the MS repo, then install VSCode.
I'm in the former group. It's easier for me to remove it, than it is for my nephew to add it.
- fartcannon 6y agoIf your nephew is using VSCode, I think adding a repo shouldn't be very hard? Or perhaps that's the more insidious underbelly being exposed. It's like when schools teach a specific tool, instead of generic tools. The students only know that one thing.
- Jiejeing 6y agoTo remove it, you have to be aware that it exists first, which is certainly not the case of a large majority of tech-savy people who do not necessarily read all the news regarding their system. I certainly wouldn’t expect my distro to silently add a repo to my already installed system. My point was that they could have added VSCode to their own repositories with minimal maintenance effort, which still provided the software without the need of another repo.