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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

VSCode is open source though? Although I guess maybe not the plugins?

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 years ago

    It's similar to chrome. Chrome is not open source, its base project chromium is. The VSCode distributable has closed source stuff on top which is mostly telemetry. There's a purely open source build of VSCode called vscodium.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    I use the proprietary version for the remote tools and settings sync.

    I can work from home on my windows PC with no loss of productivity compared to my Linux workstation.

    And the ability to open any GitHub repo in the browser based Code just by pressing . is a game changer.

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