Step-by-step – VSCodium Installation in Ubuntu 20.04 Guide

GNU/Linux Ubuntu 20.04 Installing VSCodium – QuickStart Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install VSCodium IDE in Ubuntu 20.04 Focal LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.

And VSCodium for Ubuntu Focal is a Community-driven, Freely-licensed Binary Distribution of Microsoft’s Editor VSCode.

Because Microsoft’s VSCode Source Code is Open Source (MIT-licensed), but the Product available for download Visual Studio Code is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking!

So instead these VSCode Binaries built instead are licensed under the MIT License and Telemetry is disabled.

Finally, this guide includes detailed instructions about to Visual Studio to VSCodium Migration.

1. 1. Accessing Shell

   Open a Terminal window
   Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)