VS Codium / codium

Codium aka VSCodium

  • Alternative to the instrumented VSCode. Less tracking, same Open Source flavor.
  • Another option is Pulsar, the resurrected Atom editor.
    • Ignore Pulsar, vscodium is fine.
  • Note that with Foam, Codium can provide some level of Obsidian-like functionality, though not nearly as extensive functionality and constrained to a desktop (no mobile apps).

Installation

sudo wget https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.asc
echo 'deb [ signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.asc ] https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install codium

Configuration

  • Which extensions
  • What settings
  • Using with git
  • Using with pandoc
  • Zoom in (ctrl+) and resize main font to 14px
  • "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
  • See also Foam
  • Maybe Excalidraw?...