Looking for an IDE

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Criteria:

  1. FOSS.
  2. Works on secureblue.
  3. Has a verified flatpak.
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You need to be more specific, an IDE for what exactly?

VSCodium is an option you could consider but it’s pretty basic, it could be fine depending on your usecase though.

KDevelop is more of an IDE than a code editor like VSCodium so that could be worth a look too.

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JetBrains IDEs are open source I think GitHub - JetBrains/intellij-community: IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

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Eclipse IDE:

1- is FOSS.
2- It should work on any environment because it has official standalone version.
3- It does not have official Flatpak version. But as a developer I never able to use Flatpak or snap version of any my development tools. Because a IDE or framework they depend themself in different ways… If you research on internet little bit, you will see that many developers also face same problem with Flatpak or Snap. You can find many issues/topics/articles about this. I don’t recommend to use Flatpak or snap on development apps.

I always prefer official portable version of development tools/apps/frameworks…

Vscodium

VSCodium is another alternative.

Eclipse Theia

Also we have Eclipse Theia alternative of VSCode develop by Eclipse Foundation. I think we should consider it to suggest on PG :heart:

Intellij

I don’t trust intellij. Most of good features are in PRO version. they have a validation module of local computer (to validate if you are using key/license correctly), they are great to fingerprint your machine.

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Zed written in rust native works well on linux developed by the original devloper of atom ide

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Cool, but OP wants a verified one, Zed is Unverified.

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Yes i know because they don’t support flathub officially they provide as a flatpak but it is a bug report that they consider this to be verified after they start supporting flathub flatpak officially.

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Hey, have you ever tried Cursor, a VSCode fork?

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I recommend giving vim or neovim a try, I think it meets your criteria.

the unix-like tools are ultimately your IDE, and lots of the niceties that JetBrains does for you should really be scripted for your project and can function as documentation as well.

There are many articles on this topic, search “unix as ide” in your favorite engine…

also not just FOSS nerds that do this. Mr Hashimoto (of HashiCorp) is also a vim-er https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rysgxl35EGc

it takes some learning to get used to. I used the vim-adventures game to force myself to practice the shortcuts, but it’s worthwhile (this advice is also coming from a person using dvorak layout on the keyboard so take grains of salt as needed.)

good luck.

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stratch that, vim, neovim, helix, etc… flatpaks are all unverified. I still stand by my unix as ide advice but you can stick with the trusty gnome text editor which is verified (and also what I use when doing lots of copy and paste).