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minus-square4gramslinkfedilinkEnglish8•11 hours agovscodium fixes the privacy anyway. It’s always open so startup times are no issue for me. I still prefer to keep a stripped down, basic text editor though. Ah well, I’m not on windows so no big deal.
minus-square@FooBarringtonlinkEnglish3•6 hours ago vscodium fixes the privacy anyway At the cost of some features not working (e.g. Pylance, which is the default Python extension, as well as others by MS).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-210 hours agoWhat do you use instead? Sublime?
minus-square4gramslinkfedilinkEnglish3•8 hours agoFor plain text, either nano on CLI or whatever built in basic text editor comes with LMDE. Windows I used notepad, from now on I’ll add ++ :)
vscodium fixes the privacy anyway. It’s always open so startup times are no issue for me.
I still prefer to keep a stripped down, basic text editor though. Ah well, I’m not on windows so no big deal.
At the cost of some features not working (e.g. Pylance, which is the default Python extension, as well as others by MS).
What do you use instead? Sublime?
For plain text, either nano on CLI or whatever built in basic text editor comes with LMDE.
Windows I used notepad, from now on I’ll add ++ :)