Remove VSCodium

[TommyTran732]

There is no technical merits to recommend VSCodium. Telemetry is optional in VSCode, and VSCodium often causes issues with even open source extensions like GitHub login. You also get decreased compatibility with extensions, since proprietary extensions like remote containers don't even work with VSCodium.

Since we have established that whether a piece of software is open source or telemetry does not matter, there is no reason to recommend VSCodium whatsoever.

[blacklight447]

Is the telemetry in vscode opt in or opt out?

[TommyTran732]

Is the telemetry in vscode opt in or opt out?

Generally opt-out, but it asks you when you first launch it. It's not like you have to dig through settings to find it.

Besides, I don't know why this matters. If the default opt in/opt out matters so much that we'd ignore other deficiencies, we might as well just remove Firefox + Arkenfox and recommend Librewolf instead. It doesn't make sense to keep VSCodium under this logic and then not recommend Librewolf.

[dngray]

I do agree this is inconsistent, perhaps we could list Visual Studio Code, and then mention VSCodium in the description.

I don't personally use this software, so I wasn't aware that extension capability differed.

[TommyTran732]

I just don't see the reason to list it as a "privacy respecting productivity tool". Quite honestly, the only 2 things I see that are valuable on the page are the 2 paste websites. LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are ehhhh... idk.

It might make sense to delete the section as a whole then move cryptpad and privatebin to cloud storage.

[ghost]

Makes sense to me. I do remember trying VSCodium awhile back and had some extension or theme not work. And yeah, the telemetry settings and information are quite up-front, both in-app and in their documentation.

It would be sort of interesting to test what telemetry actually gets sent as described in Viewing all telemetry events.

[dngray]

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