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I have a native Linux version of Visual Studio Code on my Tumbleweed system and everything works fine so far for me
VS, not VS Code
Why anyone outside the Microsoft ecosystem would want to use Visual Studio though, idk
I know, I feel very bad for this, but I needed Github Copilot, because I'm too stupid to code on my own
I think you're mixing up Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio is a massively bloated IDE mostly used for .NET development, but supports other things too. It's proprietary, massive, slow and a pain to work with, and doesn't run on Linux afaik
Visual Studio Code, on the other hand, is an Electron app and therefore runs almost everywhere, and is (partly or totally, I'm not sure) open source. Nothing wrong with coding in VS Code, it's a decent IDE
Telemetry, licensing and proprietary extensions in VS Code is the whole reason for VScodium to exist.
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
https://vscodium.com/
Visual Studio Code is like Android is relative to the Android Open Source project. As far as I know, VS Code comes with an additional Microsoft layer of telemetry and closed source additions in its binary form. Not to mention the license which basically assumes the right to do almost anything to the underlying system. That's why projects like VSCodium came into existence.
Please anyone, correct me if I'm wrong.
Ah, thanks for the clarification ^-^
I don't use VSCode(ium) myself, I'm usually quite content with Helix + LSPs, and if ever need a full IDE I usually go with the Jetbrain products
Tbf I think OP is also mixing up VS and VSCode because the dart/flutter recommended setup is all based on VSCode and VSCode extensions.
Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code is not the same thing at all 😂
And Microsoft really sucks at naming things. Windows 10 wasn't the 10th Windows version, the Xbox One wasn't the first Xbox, there are many more examples.