About those, I’m the last person that could offer any useful advice…
a Better idea, but not the best in my opinion as yay isn’t native. Please, before going further with you Linux journey, work through this:
You’ll save yourself much headaches. If you decide to continue, then go through this:
Regarding VS Code, this might help:
I recommend pamac instead of pacman, especially for newcomers as pamac was developed by Manajaro (developers) for Manjaro and just takes care of more thing than pacman. For example:
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