Yeah for anyone else (especially Mac and Linux users) who recently had this frustration thrust upon you: Go into VSCode settings and search for terminal integration > uncheck.

It’s so weird, vscode worked flawlessly for me for years and after migrating to neovim a month or two ago I keep seeing complains.

Has there been a change lately and in the project, or is it just internet bias?

I thought I was going crazy, but it started feeling materially worse sometime in last few weeks.

Ohh, that's what has been happening when I've had tab completion fail recently! Thanks for mentioning it...

If you like Powershell but have some complaints, you might find nushell to be the best of both worlds. My elevator pitch for it would be imagine the object-oriented / typed nature of Powershell, minus the verbosity and windows-centric design of it. As someone who develops on and for windows computers, nushell is a real breath of fresh air.

I have a deep and abiding love of Powershell but you are spot on.

It is amazing until you run into one of these insane behaviors that somehow nobody ever fixed.

(Some are actually fixed finally in 7.x - like issues with filenames with grave characters in them)

Powershell right arrow is madness… just found out F2 shows all the options though and finally it’s a little more tolerable

Been the case since forever. Very annoying

Nobody is dogfooding the non-AI versions of autocomplete anymore is my best guess

Yes, and what a mess it has been.

Intellisense + Intellicode + Roslynator (extension) combined were really the height of productivity in Visual Studio. Now they've driven a steam-roller over all of that, forced CoPilot down our throats.

I LIKE CoPilot's "chat" interface, and agents are fine too (although Claude in VS Code is tons better), but CoPilot auto-complete is negative value and shouldn't be used.

Alright, he's just holding it wrong.

Why can't all the suggestions come through the same UI element? That's beyond my understanding.

You'd get suggestions from,

- multiple language servers

- matches from the same buffer/project or sibling pane (tab,window, whatever you call it)

- matches from the dictionary

Windows Search requires a DNS lookup, and HTTP request to start your search, as a direct result if either one of those is slow the whole UI lags and hangs. It hasn't ever been fixed in Windows 11.

Also, there is a RegX way of disabling "bing" for-real in the search but they released an update that caused doing so to break search entirely if that was set (totally a coincidence I'm sure).

> It's been botched since they added ads to the Start Menu.

Sounds like botched since they botched it

It boggles my mind how broken this has become.

Windows Vista/7, search was instant and correct (modulo hard drive speed and RAM). Then Windows 10 came along, I click a local result, half the time it takes forever to open Explorer, or nothing happens, or there's no results once it does open.

By the way, things still work correctly and instantly with OpenShell, so something still works underneath whatever shit veneer has coated the shell

Let me fix the title: Microsoft, please get your shit together

I tried to help a relative set up a new Windows PC recently and had to give up. Everything was confusing and/or broken, and for the first time I am ready to just send them to Apple while they can still return it. A literal brand new PC with nothing installed, and after logging in, clicking Explorer in the task bar doesn't work and I have to reboot and try again? I'm not even angry, just disappointed.

Did you know there's no more Office, they literally call it Microsoft Copilot 365 now? Like, I've been through shades of this before (".NET", anyone?) but it's a thoroughly unhinged clusterfuck on an entirely different level now.

Oh, I'd say AI is rotting our brains, all right...

I'm convinced that the win10 Start Menu was the single worst thing microsoft inflicted upon us in that OS. I imagine that particular discussion went like this:

Exec1:"We have a semi decent os with a refreshingly updated UI that should stay relevant for a decade. How can we make it better?"

Exec2: "why not replace the perfectly good start menu we have with an ugly, oddly proportioned rectangle with animated ads for our products."

Exec3: "Sounds great! Just make sure it has a quarter of the information density of the old one and takes up twice the screen space."

I haven't used Win11 enough to discover how they have managed to further degrade the experience, but at least it looks nicer.

30% of code written by AI, but 100% of tools must be enshittified with the terrible and behind Microsoft Copilot even if it means you will blow up the goodwill for VS Code in a matter of months

I've switched everything except WinForms to VS Code because Visual Studio is becoming a second rate citizen. Where are the first party extensions for Claude Code or Codex? Why is GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio always weeks behind the VS Code version?

dunno if you tried VS2026 C#, but it's worse. I have no extensions (besides the default Copilot) and it's a never ending battle of just trying to get the normal intellisense to show up. What's worst is that the copilot autocomplete suggestions fill in made up methods/properties. Why can't it look at intellisense to get the real ones?

Visual Studio started to enshitify as well

They say it's vscode in the article. I can't say I've seen anything that egregious happen with unity in visual studio.

It's stuff like this though that keeps me from using vscode for code editing (I use it for markdown and JSON file editing only). I guess I don't know what I'm missing but it's never been a smooth experience for me. If I'm on Windows I tend to stick with visual studio.

Maybe I should consider rider...

Pretty sure they hijacked a key most developers had a muscle memory of using since Visual Basic 6 to pump their AI usage metrics, and then invented a workaround that requires re-learning their tool.

Mine still does this, especially when it's correcting a word. It happens when your cursor is in the word.

But I'm not sure what I hate more: the one I hate the most is when it completes for you and then you get two instances of the word, no space separation or where it corrects the word you just swiped AND the word before it... and then when you press backspace it deletes both words...

Btw, I have autocorrect disabled...

iOS typing is a fucking nightmare

I dunno about GitHub, but the devs are fairly responsive on the Microsoft forum (which is awful and requires MS login) and you can just Tweet-shame them into fixing stuff if you don't want to go through the proper channels ;)

There are still plenty of things that VSCode does and Zed doesn't. E.g. Dart debugging.

Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on every dollar spent.

I didnt think I would ever switch from vscode but Zed is very nice and my daily driver now.

> Not a very clear issue report, but looks like a conflict between language features, copilot, and possibly snippets?

Which is overwhelmingly the VS Code experience for any language. Everything feels shaky. I've had to report a bunch of irritating issues like the post for TypeScript - never fixed or resolved. I have never needed to report issues like this for C# in Visual Studio, and when I have tried C# in VS Code the experience makes me wonder if it's a bad joke.

.NET feels better than ever right now. C# native type unions maybe next year will be a big highlight.

Link to context if there’s interest, there was a macOS equivalent back in the day: https://istartedsomething.com/20080811/launching-aqua-taskfo...

Don’t bother clicking the links in the post, domains are squatted.

Not a fan of Windows either, but playing devil’s advocate here: Apple’s Finder has steadily gotten worse over the last ~16 years, at least in my experience. It increasingly struggles with basic functionality.

There seems to be a pattern where higher market cap correlates with worse ~~tech~~ fundamentals.

Or the start menu search

yep, and FileSearchEX

I think it originates from The Restarurant at the end of the Universe: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/douglas_adams_125092

Worrying? Because it's forced upon some of us.

Bigger question is how they still exist while trying as hard as they can to kill themselves. Or why they're even trying to do that in the first place

Microsoft stuff is universally dogshit. The amount of time/money we burn on making Azure work as it’s supposed to is insane. I will never willingly give Microsoft money.

Because it runs probably as high as 95% of enterprise environments (desktop / laptop / office / exchange / active directory)