I am just going to say that even if this offered a noticeably better experience (it doesn't, it is "better" but quite frankly I don't care if vscode is gathering data on me, I'm already using windows so Microsoft already has all the access it wants) I wouldn't do this because it adds another point of failure, another thing to consider, and another step when setting up a computer.
All that said it is nice that this exists because some people care about that.
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I am just going to say that even if this offered a noticeably better experience (it doesn't, it is "better" but quite frankly I don't care if vscode is gathering data on me, I'm already using windows so Microsoft already has all the access it wants) I wouldn't do this because it adds another point of failure, another thing to consider, and another step when setting up a computer.
All that said it is nice that this exists because some people care about that.