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Me too. Even if you have a great theme in VSC you're still stuck with the sidebar and the bad Microsoft-y typography choices everywhere.

I was able to make VSCode look pretty great with a bit of work by following the ebook Make VSCode Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/

great fonts, minimal visual clutter etc

Watching your "Hide all the crap" gif made me realize you could do this:

> View: Toggle Activity Bar Visibility

Much nicer, thank you!

I'm not the author of that webpage or e-book, but the e-book has a looooot of other good information like that.

It feels a little more natural/human. VSCode's default theme looks like Tron. Both are valid, but I can see how Atom's is more "cozy". It also had some fun "squishy" animations that were nice

For the colors at least, there are VSCode themes that will try to mimic it for you

Same here. I've tried VSCode multiple times but still switched back to atom. Just FEELS RIGHT.

Yeah, have the same relationship, wish a UX expert could explain why my psychology is different with Atom vs VSCode