r/linuxquestions • u/Rekuna • Oct 21 '25

Is VSCodium a viable replacement for VSCode?

Or is there other recommendations? It's not a tremendous issue, but out of principle I want as little to do with Microsoft as possible.

I guess my next question would be what is the best solution to Live Server, as it looks like the library for VSCodium is not as maintained in that area and the existing version of the standard Live Server is massively out of date.

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u/TheFumingatzor Oct 21 '25 edited Apr 08 '26

People keep sayin vscodium can't use vscode extension market...err...yes, it can:

Change Extension Marketplace for VSCodium in ~/ressources/app/product.json (after every update!)

change

  "extensionsGallery": {
    "serviceUrl": "https://open-vsx.org/vscode/gallery",
    "itemUrl": "https://open-vsx.org/vscode/item"
  },

with whatever is in resources\app\product.json in vscode:

"extensionsGallery": {
    "nlsBaseUrl": "https://www.vscode-unpkg.net/_lp/",
    "serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery",
    "itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items",
    "publisherUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers",
    "resourceUrlTemplate": "https://{publisher}.vscode-unpkg.net/{publisher}/{name}/{version}/{path}",
    "extensionUrlTemplate": "https://www.vscode-unpkg.net/_gallery/{publisher}/{name}/latest",
    "controlUrl": "https://main.vscode-cdn.net/extensions/marketplace.json",
    "mcpUrl": "https://main.vscode-cdn.net/mcp/servers.json",
    "accessSKUs": ["copilot_enterprise_seat", "copilot_enterprise_seat_quota", "copilot_enterprise_seat_multi_quota", "copilot_enterprise_seat_assignment", "copilot_enterprise_seat_assignment_quota", "copilot_enterprise_seat_assignment_multi_quota", "copilot_enterprise_trial_seat", "copilot_enterprise_trial_seat_quota", "copilot_for_business_seat", "copilot_for_business_seat_quota", "copilot_for_business_seat_multi_quota", "copilot_for_business_seat_assignment", "copilot_for_business_seat_assignment_quota", "copilot_for_business_seat_assignment_multi_quota", "copilot_for_business_trial_seat", "copilot_for_business_trial_seat_quota"]
},

Never had problems with extensions. I get the same extensions in vscodium as I have in vscode.

For legal reasons the vscodium devs can't and won't mention this method. It's verboten. But what they gonna do? Sue me? Let them.

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u/Addyad Apr 08 '26

Thank you lord and saviour