com.vscodium.codium VS snapstore

Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.vscodium.codium

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yeah, that'd be crazy... especially, when there's a flatpak and an appimage if they really didn't want to add the repo..

I use Vs Codium, works just the same but without all the Microsoft telemetry. You could use the flatpak in the software manager, but I got lazy filter things with FLatseal.

I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about privacy in open-source editors. From a privacy perspective, being built on Electron isn't different from being programmed in C++ or anything else - they can still spy on you and do network requests. I'm not a fan of vscodium myself, but it sounds fine for your needs. You could run the editor in a sandbox that blocks network traffic. On Linux, this is easily done with the Flatpak and Flatseal.

I'm following the Vscodium instructions to get more languages in its flatpak (namely, Php). But it seems that flatpak doesn't detect my installed php sdk.

VSCodium is a very, very, popular package. An Issue tells them that they shouldnt break the sandbox themselves by writing into the home dir.

https://github.com/flathub/com.vscodium.codium#sdks

Why should I be required to disprove your conspiracy theory? Here's one; took me three seconds of googling. https://github.com/gjsman/snapstore.

However, it looks like someone else is trying to do it with a current snapd, although you still can’t install from it.

look here is a github for a non-launchpad based snap store. set it up, go crazy. https://github.com/gjsman/snapstore

Your use of "optional" should be taken with a huge grain of salt, and THAT is what I'm getting at. This is why there are small third-party devs who have to pick-up the slack for Canonical with projects like these. That's just silly in my opinion.