Friendly reminder that VSCodium exists, and nobody should be using Microslop's spyware version anyway.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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VSCodium would have the same Electron caching issues though, wouldn’t it?
The only difference really is the occasional extension that needs a manual install.
I've been trying out VSIX Manager for my extensions so that I can keep track of which ones I want to install on each machine. This can make it easier to install the weird extensions that you can't install otherwise
Oh nice, I didn’t know, thank you!
My favorite fun fact about VSCode is it stores all its cache files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Yay, it uses the XDG dirs... Wait, no, not like that.
Microsoft managing to make even their Linux software not achieve basic functions like...deleting files.
If you are on Linux, use a real editor like Vim or Emacs and not... THAT
Help, how do I get out?!????!
^/s^
Wha???? A Microsoft product?!?! Nooooo.... c'mon
