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Discussion on: Why and how you should migrate from Visual Studio Code to VSCodium

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Chima Okwara

If you're on Linux, a better way to keep your extensions without having to reinstall them:

When removing vscode, use:
apt remove code

instead of purge.

Then, after installing codium, go to your terminal and do:
mv ~/.vscode/extensions/ ~/vscode-oss/extensions.

That worked for me.

instead of purge. Then, after installing codium, go to your terminal and enter this:

ln -s ~/.vscode/extensions ~/vscode-oss/extensions

or do: