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Is there any usability difference between the two?

by lifty 3y ago

smcl 3y ago
There was something about some extensions (for debugging?) not working in Codium
npteljes 3y ago
VS Codium and other forks don't (maybe can't) use the official VSCode extension market. Because a lot of goodness, like the ability to refactor and debug PHP, is coming from the extensions and the extension ecosystem, it can be a big deal.
- zelphirkalt 3y ago
  However, one can still add that marketplace, if one wants to do so. So people could still have access to the same extensions (which might be a privacy and telemetry or spyware risk), but at least not have the in-built telemetry.
  - npteljes 3y ago
    That's good to know! I knew that MS forbids it, but it turns out that it's possible to still use the official Marketplace. Here's how: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#howto-switch-marketplace https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#how...
  - easton 3y ago
    From a random VSCode SSH session I have open: > Found running server... > > * > * Visual Studio Code Server > * > * By using the software, you agree to > * the Visual Studio Code Server License Terms (https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license) and > * the Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement). > * > Many of the interesting extensions (Microsoft's language plugins, the remote extension pack, the .NET debugger) are licensed only for use with Visual Studio Code. Even if you hook into the VSCode marketplace, they could sue. They probably won't unless you're rehosting VSCode externally or something, but the risk is something most companies probably don't want to take when the software is free as in beer anyway for the "real" builds. (And if you're telemetry sensitive... just block the domains? I know, easier said than done, but you can do it.)
lozenge 3y ago
Initially you just didn't get Settings Sync as it uses a Microsoft account and you had to use a different extensions gallery (but the MS one still lets you download extensions as a file to install into Codium). Nowadays you also lose Remote Development, Codespaces, Pylance, some C# features, and various other MS authored extensions.

Is there any usability difference between the two?

by lifty 3y ago

Is there any usability difference between the two?

smcl 3y ago

There was something about some extensions (for debugging?) not working in Codium

npteljes 3y ago

VS Codium and other forks don't (maybe can't) use the official VSCode extension market. Because a lot of goodness, like the ability to refactor and debug PHP, is coming from the extensions and the extension ecosystem, it can be a big deal.

zelphirkalt 3y ago
However, one can still add that marketplace, if one wants to do so. So people could still have access to the same extensions (which might be a privacy and telemetry or spyware risk), but at least not have the in-built telemetry.
- npteljes 3y ago
  That's good to know! I knew that MS forbids it, but it turns out that it's possible to still use the official Marketplace. Here's how: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#howto-switch-marketplace https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#how...
- easton 3y ago
  From a random VSCode SSH session I have open: > Found running server... > > * > * Visual Studio Code Server > * > * By using the software, you agree to > * the Visual Studio Code Server License Terms (https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license) and > * the Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement). > * > Many of the interesting extensions (Microsoft's language plugins, the remote extension pack, the .NET debugger) are licensed only for use with Visual Studio Code. Even if you hook into the VSCode marketplace, they could sue. They probably won't unless you're rehosting VSCode externally or something, but the risk is something most companies probably don't want to take when the software is free as in beer anyway for the "real" builds. (And if you're telemetry sensitive... just block the domains? I know, easier said than done, but you can do it.)

lozenge 3y ago

Initially you just didn't get Settings Sync as it uses a Microsoft account and you had to use a different extensions gallery (but the MS one still lets you download extensions as a file to install into Codium). Nowadays you also lose Remote Development, Codespaces, Pylance, some C# features, and various other MS authored extensions.