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    Installing VS Code on Arch Linux Takes Some Thinking

    May 27, 2025

    Installing VS Code on Arch Linux Takes Some Thinking

    There are two main choices for getting VS Code on Arch Linux:

    • Install Code – OSS from Arch repositories
    • Install Microsoft’s VS Code from AUR

    I know. It’s confusing. Let me clear the air for you.

    VS Code is an open source project but the binaries Microsoft distributes are not open source. They have telemetry enabled in it.

    Code – OSS is the actual open source version of VS Code.

    Think of Code – OSS as Chromium browser and VS Code as Google Chrome (which is based on Chromium browser).

    Another thing here is that some extensions will only work in VS Code, not in the de-Micorsoft Code – OSS.

    This is why you should think it through if you want to use Microsoft’s VS Code or its 100% open sourced version.

    Let me show you the steps for both installation.

    Method 1: Install Code – OSS

    ✅ Open source version of Microsoft VS Code
    ✅ Easy to install with a quick pacman command
    ❌ Some extensions may not work

    This is simple. All you have to do is to ensure that your Arch system is updated:

    pacman -Syu

    And then install Code – OSS with:

    pacman -S code

    It cannot be simpler than this, can it?

    As I mentioned earlier, you may find some extensions that do not work in the open source version of Code.

    Also, I had noticed earlier that Ctrl+C – Ctrl+V was not working for copy paste. Instead, it was defaulted to Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V for reasons not known to me. I had not made any changes to key bindings or had opted for a Vim plugin.

    Removing Code OSS

    Removal is equally simple:

    sudo pacman -R code

    Method 2: Install the actual Microsoft’s VS Code

    ✅ Popular Microsoft VS Code that is used by most people
    ✅ Access to all proprietary features and extensions in the marketplace
    ❌ Installation may take effort if you don’t have an AUR helper

    If you don’t care too much about ethics, open source principles and just want to code without thinking it too much, go with VS Code.

    There are a couple of VS Code offerings available in the AUR but the official one is this.

    Before installing it, you should remove Code OSS

    sudo pacman -R code

    If you have an AUR helper like yay already installed, use it like this:

    yay -S visual-studio-code-bin

    Otherwise, install yay first and then use it to install the desired package.

    Installing VS Code on Arch Linux Takes Some Thinking

    Don’t be deceived by the pretty looking screenshot above. I was using a different theme in VS Code.

    Removal

    You can use your AUR helper or the super reliable pacman command to remove Microsoft VS Code from Arch Linux.

    sudo pacman -R visual-studio-code-bin

    I let you enjoy your preferred version of VS Code on Arch Linux. Please feel free to use the comment section if you have questions or suggestions.

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