Microsoft is developing Visual Studio Code as an open source project, available under the MIT license, but binary compilations officially provided they are not identical to the source code, Ya que include components to track publisher actions and send telemetry.
The telemetry collection is due to the optimization of the interface taking into account the real behavior of the developers.
In addition, binary compilations are distributed under a separate non-free license.
Visual Studio has been created using the Atom project and the Electron platform, based on the Chromium and Node.js codebase.
The editor provides a built-in debugger, tools for working with Git, refactoring tools, code navigation, autocompletion of typical constructions and contextual help.
More than 100 programming languages and technologies are supported. To extend the functionality of Visual Studio Code, you can install add-ins.
Faced with this editor problem, a completely free alternative has been born that eliminates Visual Studio's crawlers, the alternative that we will talk about today is VSCodium.
VSCodium a free alternative to Visual Studio Code
VS Codium is an open source, free creation of Visual Studio Code (from Microsoft) created so developers don't have to deal with telemetry/ crawlers that Visual Studio Code has.
As part of the VSCodium project, is being developed as Fork of Visual Studio code editor. VS Codium it is an excellent optionAs it contains only free components, it cleanses itself of Microsoft branded items.
This tuning is achieved by using special scripts to clone Visual Studio Code from the repository, compile it from source, and then upload the resulting binaries to the GitHub versions of VSCodium without telemetry passes.
Having said that, VSCodium is basically a replica of Visual Studio Code and therefore it works the same way with all the features and support present in your main project. Except for the app icon, that's different.
VSCodium builds are ready for Windows, macOS, and Linux and come with built-in support for Git, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.
For functionality, VSCodium repeats Visual Studio code and provides plugin-level compatibility (through plugins, for example, support for C ++, C #, Java, Python, PHP, and Go is available).
How to install VSCodium on Linux?
If you had Visual Studio Code installed and you want to switch to this 100% open source alternative or you just want to try this editor.
You can install it on your system by following the instructions we share with you below.
Those readers who are users of Debian, Ubuntu or any other distribution based or derived from these.
They are going to open a terminal on your system and in it they will execute the following command with which the GPG key of the application repository will be added:
wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg | Sudo apt-key add -
Once this is done, we can now proceed to add the VSCodium repository to your system:
sudo echo 'deb https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/repos/debs/ vscodium main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
Once the repository and the GPG key have been successfully added to your system, now you must execute the following commands to update your list of packages and the new repository is detected:
sudo apt update
Finally you can install the editor on your system by executing the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install vscodium
Now for those who are users of Fedora, Centos, RHEL or any other derivative of these, they can install VSCodium using the following commands.
First they will open a terminal on their system and they must type the following command in the terminal:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/repos/rpms/
E install the editor on your system with the following command:
sudo dnf instala vscodium
Now for the case of those who are users of any version of OpenSUSE type the following:
sudo zypper addrepo -t YUM https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/repos/rpms/ vscodium_mirror_on_gitlab
And they install with:
sudo zypper en vscodium
Finally, for whoever users of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos or any other derivative of Arch Linux, will be able to install the editor from AUR.
In a terminal type the following command:
yay -Sy vscodium
I have tried to install vscodium in Ubuntu Mate and all the steps are successful but in the end in the install it gives me the error E: The vscodium package could not be located.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install codium
And where is the source code to compile from it?
wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg | Sudo apt-key add -
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