vscodium: A free and open-source version of Visual Studio Code.

So long as I agree to this beforehand and I’m not deceived, I cannot observe how it’s inherently immoral.
Being uncomfortable with something doesn’t invariably make that thing immoral if it’s not forcefully imposed you.
Your saying that this being a possibility means all proprietary software is immoral is like saying that since some businesses are pyramid schemes, all businesses are immoral.

Let them get info like the rest of us want to do.
Just IMHO. Needless to say, getting the pink slip on a Friday, when there is 2 feet of snow on the floor, the babysitter quit that morning making me 2 hours late to my temp MS job could have a little bit to do with it.
I still had to make it up the Redmond Kirkland hill to access Kingsgate.

• The only real downside of VS code I read so far is the telemetry tracking.
• Ask the extension maintainers to create to open-vsx.org in addition to the VS Code Marketplace.
• to be, as long as the extensions you will need already exist or you’re willing to write them.
• It would be nice if exactly the same extensions matched.

Also, assuming you have your doubts, it is simple to opt out.
There were enough leaks, or news that, under guise of ‘telemetry’, lots of unrelated data was gathered, without consent.
Microsoft has been caught disregarding consent and engaging in dark patterns…

What’s Vscodium?

This community-driven project is completely free of any telemetry which Microsoft collects in Visual Studio Code.
This repository contains build files to generate free release binaries of Microsoft’s VS Code.

It is a Notepad clone with a lot of extra features.
It is best recognized for combining functionality from source code editors into a multi-line tabbed text editor.
VSCodium is really a community-driven, freely licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor Visual Studio Code.
The VSCodium project exists so

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All Microsoft telemetry and other tools just like the C # code debugger are also excluded, so we’ll get a cleaner app.
Although this software is open source, it’s the identical to with Chrome, which is that Microsoft has included proprietary parts within the code and data collection functions.
I admit it is a somewhat abstract risk, but why is me hesitant about proprietary tools isn’t any one thing, but tips on how to gradually get embedded in a proprietary workflow.
I won’t get cancer or liver problems because I haven’t seen the source code of my washing machine’s programmer/timer.
I wouldn’t read it even if it was available , because my time is limited, and I don’t start to see the benefit as worth the effort.
Just because users are not restrained by force will not mean they’re not for some reason coerced to use the program.

I had this exact same problem when coming up with the switch from VS Code to VSCodium earlier this week.
It might be nice if the same extensions matched.
What about swapping `display_name` + `account_is_verified` for `display_name` + `display_name_is_verified` or alternatively `display_name` / `verified_display_name`?
The idea being to tie the verification mark to the display name, not just the account.
In which case, keep these properties as separated as possible.

If you build the application from source, you should verify that all telemetry is deactivated when you first launch it.
The editors have become, virtually identical in what they do.
I have been with them side-by-side for some time, and for me it’s the same now.
Switching was a smooth experience for me personally, but I have seen some people have some issues.
Remote – Containers – Work with a separate toolchain or container based application by opening any folder mounted into or in the container.

If you are saying that software wouldn’t exist without extracting money from per-user license fees, that’s completely false, as proven by the large body of Free Software that already exists.
Such views are not dogmatic, they are based on very practical arguments – for me the most important argument is “I don’t want to run programs whose behavior I cannot change in case I want to”.
I don’t desire to let another person, let alone a corporation, run an application on my machine unless I understand what it does.
The EULA you agreed to would no longer apply, no software provides EULA diff tools.
It’s right there in the License Agreement that you accept when you install VSCode.
And unlike some other EULA’s, it’s near to the beginning of the document, readable, describes data usage and explains how exactly to opt out of it.

This consists of a C# debugger plus some gallery extensions.
If you want them, there are documented workarounds for these issues, but if you depend on something very specific in VS Code, you need to verify that it functions in VSCodium.
In practice, the differences between VS Code and Code – OSS are minimal.