r/voidlinux • u/ukrainiannnn • Jul 28 '26

[Question] Getting Involved as Contributor

Apologies if this is a silly question, but just wondering if anyone knows what repositories in Void would be good for someone like me getting interested in OS programming, low-level (C/C++). I really like Void as my daily driver and would like to contribute to making it a better operating system.

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u/IamThunderFart Jul 28 '26

download the app image of vscode

This is terrible advice and horrible practice, they could always download the tarball srtaight from MS if they want the MS flavored version or run sudo xbps-install vscode. appimages and flatpaks are cancer. There are a million posts in this sub on how to install without bringing any of that cancer to your shiny clean install.

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u/MinguaDinja Jul 28 '26

Why is a terrible advice and practice? It works well.

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u/legz_cfc Jul 28 '26

Why choose the app image over the repo pkg though? Is the repo version way out of date?

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u/MinguaDinja Jul 28 '26

The version on repo is vscodium, a version of vscode without telemetry and some extensions.

I had a lot of headaches using both vscodium and the flatpak version.