Visual Studio Code

Installing Microsoft's Visual Studio Code

Note: Visual Studio Code is unfree, its license prohibits distribution. See the FAQ/unfree page to install unfree software.

Because it is NixOS, you don't have to be root in order to be able to install stuff. As a normal user, do:

$ nix-env -iA nixos.vscode

And to open or launch the IDE, do:

$ code

As a normal user, you might be curious what stuff you have installed. To find out, do:

$ nix-env -q

Also, if you want to uninstall stuff that you installed there as a normal user, do:

$ nix-env --uninstall package-name-here

Replace the package-name-here with whatever package returned by 'nix-env -q'.