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I have been using vs code for a month now on my manjaro Linux machine and I've had a number of issues. For example opening a folder from the welcome page doesn't work, sign in using a GitHub account doesn't work, it hangs quite a lot and after facing any of these issues vs code quits I have tried to re-install vs-code but it solves nothing

I am using a laptop with an i7 8th gen CPU, 16GB ram and a G-force MX150 which should be plenty for everything but I'm booting into manjaro using a traditional old hard drive

Is there a fix for this ?

maskedpirate
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    Perhaps you could share more information. Can you post or link a screen capture of these issues? – sanitizedUser Aug 22 '20 at 10:45
  • https://youtu.be/Tlt7E0PhHd4 But I must mention I downloaded the app using snap on manjaro – maskedpirate Aug 23 '20 at 10:49
  • I looked at VS Code's github and there are number of similar issues. Links: [1](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/61091), [2](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/56342), [3](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/56594). It looks like they all happen on Linux. Do you have the latest stable build of VS Code? Also you can look at [crash reporting wiki](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Native-Crash-Issues#linux) that will guide through the process of creating an issue with more information. – sanitizedUser Aug 23 '20 at 13:47
  • Yes, I do have the latest build. I have tried some of the solutions which suggested reinstalling glibc but it made no difference – maskedpirate Aug 23 '20 at 14:25

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so I just figured out to solve this problem myself follow the steps below if you're facing similar issues on an arch-based distro. The problem is with the AUR pls download the official release from GitHub if you're not sure how to do that follow the steps below.

  1. uninstall VS-code

  2. cd into the desired directory

  3. Follow the steps in order

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/visual-studio-code-bin.git

cd visual-studio-code-bin

makepkg -si

This solved my issue so I hope it does for you as well

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