VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing

Re:VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, ... by Zancarius on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:27PM (#17854211)

> I don't think this is a big reason Gentoo users use Gentoo.

Exactly. The two most compelling reasons to use Gentoo are/were: 1) It's a rolling-release distribution and 2) it offers customization by virtue of building from source. I don't think I've seen the argument that it's more secure--not seriously anyway. I used it back then because I wasn't a huge fan of Linux and Gentoo seemed more familiar to me with its ports analog.

Perhaps part of the OP's confusion is the hardened profile (or similar)? I'm not sure considering their wiki currently advertises it as risk mitigation [1], but I haven't used Gentoo in probably 6-7 years (at least not consistently outside a VM) so my memory on this is likely wrong.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo

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Re:VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, ... by floatingatoll on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @07:37PM (#17922783)

To clarify: Gentoo did no harm. Many Gentoo users cited the risks of prebuilt binaries in their evangelism of Gentoo. That perceived risk remains an undercurrent in people’s thinking today, even though we’ve generally since realized that prebuilt binaries aren’t the risk we were led to believe they were back then. I blame the Gentoo evangelists of yesterdecade for this persistent “anti-binary” mindset, not Gentoo itself.

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