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The standalone CLI should detect and fall back to using and system-installed VS Code instance, rather than trying to download zips and manage its own VS Code instances. There are three approaches used for discovery: - On Windows, we can easily and quickly read the register to find installed versions based on their app ID. - On macOS, we initially look in `/Applications` and fall back to the slow `system_profiler` command to list app .app's if that fails. - On Linux, we just look in the PATH. I believe all Linux installers (snap, dep, rpm) automatically add VS Code to the user's PATH. Failing this, the user can also manually specify their installation dir, using the command `code version use stable --install-dir /path/to/vscode`. Fixes #164159