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Comment by xyproto | Hacker News Reader

If `apt install code` is hard, then using it will be impossible.

Small difference: VS Code isn't on official apt repos, so they added the Microsoft repo by default on their learning-based linux distribution that is supposed to help children learn with ease.

Nonsense. You can write and execute Python code in VSCode without even leaving the GUI.

Good luck writing Python code if you can't write `apt install code`.

I think if it wasn't installed by default, new users would be better served going through the Raspberry Pi OS "Recommended Software" program that can be found in the main menu. Your command won't help them.

  $ apt install code
  E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
  E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

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