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by lordofgibbons 1696 days ago
Thank you for saying this. For those who don't know about the open-source release of VSCode, check out https://vscodium.com/
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I use VSCodium every day, and recommend it over VSCode to everyone, however, due to microsoft's locked down plugins, particulary the ones related to remote development and debug, there are certain things which can be done with VSCode and not VSCodium.

It's worth bearing in mind for those considering switching.

SSH FS, a third-party extension seems to work well with VSCodium: https://github.com/SchoofsKelvin/vscode-sshfs
They mean Microsoft's plugins -- they just work with VSCode on purpose.
This one is an alternative to the remote development tooling which doesn't work on VSCodium. It is certainly not a full replacement, but you get to poke around the files on the remote system and run commands over SSH.
Yes, but unfortunately if you want to use something like Okteto[0] it requires the microsoft plugin. There are other third party plugins and tools tightly bound to the Microsoft ones making them unfortunately unusable.

[0]https://okteto.com/

Sadly, MS has locked-out the extremely useful and popular PlatformIO from being available in vscodium.