The Distros mentioned in the article are meant to be used without changing anything else…

If you meant Arch, I agree with your concern. But Arch isn’t designed for beginners in the first place. It was designed to be built.

Any operating system would break if you tinking too much about how it was built. In Windows, if you mess with regedit too much, it’ll start to misbehave or worse, Blue Screen…

Depends on the perspective…

Zorin OS has Windows App Support… You can run .exe and .msi on it…

They will demand payment in cryptocurrency, usually bitcoin, which is untraceable. There’s no guarantee that they will really keep their word; since it’s completely anonymous, there’s nothing you can do. If you get infected, you just have to accept that your files are gone. The best thing you can do is backup while you still can.

Quora (https://www.quora.com) is marketed as “A place to share knowledge and better understand the world”… You can ask questions and get them answered by experts, or you can find questions already answered by experts…

Start by exploring Linux Mint or ZorinOS… Both are optimized to feel like Windows… You can watch YouTube videos about them to understand what I mean

Looks like it’s too late… But I don’t think it’s a good idea either… Beta version sometimes crashes, imagine that in the middle of your work, the IDE suddenly crashes, or worse, it didn’t save your work… I did consider downloading the crack version from torrent sites, but it didn’t have the latest version… I wanted the latest features and support for Vue and Typescript…

I’m no longer a student, and I have no open-source project of my own… So, I don’t think I can convince them to give discounts… It looks like I have no choice but to buy at full price…

Shame… Maybe I should re-enroll myself at a University?? I’m kidding… Looks like I have no choice but to purchase their monthly sub, but I’m still comparing my experience with it with what I’m used to with VSCodium… but so far, I’m in its favor…

That’s understandable… Text Editors are a great choice for any language, IDEs are only good for specific language… If your team needs an IDE, here’s a list: https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/python-tutorial/python-ide

And VSCode is one on the list, it’s considered an IDE with the right plugins… But for me, I use Javascript on the frontend and got curious about Webstorm… But I will still continue using VSCode/VSCodium for other languages…

I do want to tell you about a seal that can write CSS flex using a tape…  wait, what am I saying?.. I’m a fullstack developer but mostly on frontend, and I’ve been using VSCodium for years. I got curious about the JS IDE, but the only problem is that it is a paid product… I just want to hear some opinions from people about whether the price is worth it…

End up trying the Trial… I’m starting to see the difference… Is there a way to get a discount??

This isn’t an ad… I was deciding to switch and just wanted some opinions…

I thought you had a typo… But then I look it up…

https://github.com/TheHolyTachanka/VsCopium

It’s real… But I think it’s abandoned…

VSCodium has limited plugins, but most known ones were available… Weird logo, some kind of a seaplant?? But I soon dig it…

VSCode has all the plugins, but with Microsoft’s Telemetry as expected… Cool logo…

Truth: I’m using VSCodium, the absence of Telemetry tends to improve it’s overall performance… I’m beginning to like the logo… Plugins support has improved, all the plugins I used in VSCode, are now available… All of it…