VSCodium / vscodium

VSCodium 
 Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of Visual Studio Code 
**This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's `vscode` repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.**
## Table of Contents
- Download/Install
 - Install with Brew
 - Install with Windows Package Manager (WinGet)
 - Install with Chocolatey
 - Install with Scoop
 - Install with snap
 - Install with Package Manager
 - Install on Arch Linux
 - Flatpak Option
- Build
- Why Does This Exist
- More Info
- Supported Platforms
- Previously Supported Platforms
## Download/Install
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Download latest release here:
stable or
insiders
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More info / helpful tips are here.
#### Install with Brew (Mac)
If you are on a Mac and have Homebrew installed:
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#### Install with Windows Package Manager (WinGet)
If you use Windows and have Windows Package Manager installed:
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#### Install with Chocolatey (Windows)
If you use Windows and have Chocolatey installed (thanks to @Thilas):
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#### Install with Scoop (Windows)
If you use Windows and have Scoop installed:
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#### Install with snap (GNU/Linux)
VSCodium is available in the Snap Store as Codium, thanks to the help of the Snapcrafters community.
If your GNU/Linux distribution has support for snaps:
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#### Install with Package Manager (GNU/Linux)
You can always install using the downloads (deb, rpm, tar) on the releases page for stable or insiders, but you can also install using your favorite package manager and get automatic updates.
@paulcarroty has set up a repository with instructions for `apt`, `dnf` and `zypper` here.
Any issues installing VSCodium using your package manager should be directed to that repository's issue tracker.
#### Install on Arch Linux
VSCodium is available in AUR, maintained by @binex-dsk as package vscodium-bin (stable) and as vscodium-insiders-bin.
If you want to save disk space by having VSCodium use the Electron system-wide, you also have vscodium-electron,
maintained by @m00nw4tch3r.
An alternative package vscodium-git, maintained by @cedricroijakkers, is also available should you wish to compile from source yourself.
#### Flatpak Option (GNU/Linux)
VSCodium is available as a Flatpak app here and the build repo is here.
If your distribution has support for flatpak, and you have enabled the flathub repo:
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## Build
Build instructions can be found here
## Why Does This Exist
This repository contains build files to generate free release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. When we speak of "free software", we're talking about freedom, not price.
Microsoft's releases of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer:
> When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that ha