At the time of writing this the current version of vscode is 1.59.0-1.

I had two machines, one with an freshly installed version of geruda Linux (an arch based distro) and an six moth old version of geruda Linux.

Fixing your Problem with not updating to the right version.Of course if you want to sick to the open-source version you can use sudo pacman -S code This should fix any Problems with no functioning Microsoft-Extensions So if you want to update/install 'visual-studio-code-bin' run: sudo pacman -S visual-studio-code-bin For more detailed information about the differences I'll refer you to the vscode repository: īy running 'sudo pacman -S code' you (unintentionally) uninstall 'visual-studio-code-bin' and install 'code' because of wired some decency conflict. This information can be found in the arch wiki. One of the major differences is that 'code' doesn't support any Microsoft Extensions like C/C++, to my knowledge. 'code' is an open-source release and 'visual-studio-code-bin' is an Microsoft-branded release. First of all, 'code' and 'visual-studio-code-bin' are two different packages.

Arch visual studio code