I would actually support this if the code was generated by the Copilot plugin, but this is just adding a blanket “Sent from my iPhone” on all code commits wtf.
It’s more insidious than that: by adding it to all even when they don’t use AI, they give cover to people who are vibe-coding. “Nah man, I totally wrote it myself. VS Code just puts that message on everything.”
I’m sure they added it by mistake 🙂
Shameless plug for codium: https://vscodium.com/
Afaik, they only remove telemetry and branding. Although they are lagging behind a little, so this change didn’t reach vscodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2823
Copilot is part of the github extension I believe not base vscode
It’s part of the git extension, not github, according to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 My understanding is that there is a separate extension for github: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/github Or do you need both for this co-authored thing?
In any case, the point is that vscodium is still based on the same source code, and Microsoft can do anything with it.
As dumb this change was, companies that fire their employees over this are somehow even dumber.
On the flip side, it pushed me to move away from vscode. Whoever did this, thanks.
No it won’t.
I’m still stumped why anyone tech savvy enough to code is not already on Linux and code berg.
Like outside of any job demanding otherwise that is
Career software engineer here, love terminal/CLI, hate using a mouse - keyboard shortcuts are king.
Every 3-4 months I try to switch to Linux and I lose 2-3 days trying 5+ distros only to arrive back on my debloated Windows because things just. don’t. work.
Shortlist of things that don’t work at all or don’t work in a performant manner:
- RDP/ParSec/AnyDesk/RustDesk/xRDP/VNC
- Customizable window tiling managers
- Drivers - whether it’s my earbuds, my keyboard, my mouse, or other various things - at least one thing doesn’t work right
- Font / display scaling
- Teams, which I need for some jobs
I really would love to make it work, but every time I try and something comes up and I ask online about how I can address it the answer is typically, “you can’t” or “you just need to be OK without that”
I’ve been using some variation of Linux since the mid 90’s but never been able to fully switch over. That said I am on my longest and perhaps permanent switch over with KDE EndevourOS (Arch based). I don’t believe this is what you are hoping for but I do believe it is close so perhaps something to keep an eye on for the future.
I have gotten Teams to run once for a about an hour before it crashed and now I can’t figure out what proton/wine voodoo witch doctor recipe I used.
No idea what luck you will have with RDP or RustDesk.
KDE plasma’s window tiling manager is really damn cool but has no documentation. Still you can do neat stuff with it like having a floating window tile on top of another tile (basically an always on top state but on steroids) with distinct tiling arrangements for each virtual desk space.
Scaling has been good but font support is still at the “almost but still not perfect”. A graphics designer might be in trouble.
Drivers - This is where Arch’s pacman (software package manager) and pkgbuild really shine. If it can compile and is available as a git repo, an rpm, or deb file then there is a good chance you can get it working. That said there are still an unfortunate mountain of unsupported stuff.
Otherwise, with all the improvements to Wine via proton and the other forks, it is getting easier to run a lot more Window’s applications.
Like I said, EndevourOS/Arch with KDE is getting pretty close to being an easy jump from Windows but not 100% perfect.
I’ll check it out! I’m a glutton for punishment. Thanks for the suggestion.
Not wanting to start any distro wars, its all a matter of taste but I could advise you to try cachyos its also arch based, but with a few performance tweaks, what I believe that it could help you is that on cachyos start screen it gives you the option to install and setup winboat and winboat is great when you need to run windows applications.
Added to my last to try! Thanks!
