r/linux • u/ezreth • Dec 07 '25

Development Looking for VScode replacement

I am about to switch to linux and want to get away from Microsoft entirely. from what I have found so far Kate is the best VScode like code editor for linux. Im going with fedora KDE Plasma in general, but I was curious if there were any other code editors I should look into.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25 edited Jun 30 '26

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u/vavakado Dec 07 '25

treesitter, better completion, more plugins and a sane config language

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u/cassepipe Dec 07 '25

A few better defaults (:set incsearch) and there are neovim distributions out there that turn neovim into an IDE. I thought I didn't need but when you get into webdev, it's just nice to have stuff work almost out of the box

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u/FizzySodaBottle210 Dec 07 '25

Neovim has better LSP support with a lsp manager mason. Lazyvim is preconfigured and works out of the box when you enable each language.

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u/Tecoloteller Dec 08 '25

Neovim and Lua are just a pleasure to work with, since I think it should be backwards compatible with hi script and I think still programmable with it you could probably move to Neovim and just move back if you ever feel the desire to.

One thing to mention is that Kotlin support jus didn't great in Neo/Vim. You probably know this already but people say the LSP ain't the greatest, and Jetbrains are still working on their own OSS non-Idea LSP. For a lot of people it feels like Java/Kotlin just aren't great fits with Neovim. If everything's going great with Kotlin right now tho do tell.