Currently, new users face "Visual Studio Code" in the setup assistant and are left to assume, this might be the normal version.
I myself installed it and tried to "bug track" why I couldn't login to my account.
I dont know, if there are other irregularities for users, but I suggest to offer both, VSCode OSS and VSCode as it comes from Microsoft and title it that way.
Yeah, vs codium is great for privacy.
But M$ is always playing dirty games. They disable most useful extensions, plugins etc. on vs codium and even other vs code unofficial builds.
So, I ditched vs code altogether. I use kate for normal text editing, and it's really good at it.
that's not the case. VSCodium is using a different (unofficial) plugin mirror which does not contain tracking. You can still manually download and install packages or just add the mirror afaik
So the normal release and the VSCodium edition together seems to make the most sense.
The OSS version apparently bring less value to both camps, since its restricting features compared to the official version and still does ship with tracking enabled.
We could also offer vscodium-marketplace in the post installation wizard as an option.
That would make:
Visual Studio Code (Full version of the Microsoft IDE) VSCodium (Version of Visual Studio Code with tracking and other non-free services disabled) VSCodium - Marketplace extension. (Enables full marketplace support for VSCodium)