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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by mayflower@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Visual studio code. There's nothing else that's anywhere near as good that doesn't cost money. Those annoying terminal text editors just don't do it for me. I need code autocomplete and do not understand how there exist people who have the patience to get by without it. I do not have the time to be switching tabs 20 times a second because I can't remember function parameter overloads. That intellisense autocomplete is just too good.

[–] odbol@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year 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.

[–] nathris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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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