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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Netbeans for the win(at least for Java, I don't know how good it is for other languages)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

@flashgnash also edge is a great browser we just hate it because of the way they force you to use it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I actually really like edge, if it weren't for telemetry I'd probably still use it on linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Once upon a time Internet Explorer was a great browser. Until they successfully forced the majority to use it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I hated Microsoft in the 90's and 00's but today's MS is not that bad. VSCode in particular is a good example of MS now being a good citizen of Open Source.

And as other said, if you don't like the telemetry in VSCode there are forks without it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We got to be mature. Microsoft (and many other corporations) are a problem due to their unfair practices. But this is not a moral war against them, when we are not the problem. If we have vscodium, which is opensource and it has telemetry removed, which is the problem?

I would be happy if they didn't made the internet a worse place, if they weren't greedy billionaire assholes, if they didn't have a monopoly, but vscode does not affect my sleep.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Run three flavours of Linux at home and love Microsoft. Why does everything have to be in opposition?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I hate Windows and dislike a lot of Microsoft products, but I think we're way past Microsoft being the bad guy. They kinda like Linux now, and probably do more good than bad for it. There are much worse companies in tech, I think Microsoft's worst crimes as of late is creating Teams and being boring.

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