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> There is no equally useable OSS version, as the Microsoft distribution has become more dependent on services and blobs Check out VSCodium, similar to Chrome/
by _fat_santa 5y ago
> There is no equally useable OSS version, as the Microsoft distribution has become more dependent on services and blobs
Check out VSCodium, similar to Chrome/Chromium, it's just VSCode minus all the related Microsoft stuff.
- siproprio 5y agoYeah, but the vscode team is actively trying to break vscodium.
- easton 5y agoCan you point to how? Pretty much all of the functionality Microsoft has made that is proprietary they’ve packaged inside extensions. The app itself works fine without those extensions.
- siproprio 5y agohttps://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/746 https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/746
- jchw 5y agoI read some of that issue but it seems to be about OpenVSX, and one of the solutions was to try switching to the official extension marketplace, probably against ToS. That seems to not be sabotage.