There was a problem with the visual studio code, after some time working with it, linux just hangs, so I want to reinstall it completely, but the usual apt-get remove code and apt-get --purge remove code does not help, all I did with it everything remains. Open files, extensions, configurations. So here's how to remove the entire package from linux (And believe VS CODE is not the only case)

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    Why did you decide that this is the fault of Visual Studio Code? Where are the open files? What does "hang" mean? What does the task manager show, who loads whom? What does it mean not a single case? - andreymal
  • @andreymal 1) When you just use Linux everything is fine. 2) When opening vs code, the files that you previously edited open. 3) What exactly to look at - Log1c0
  • @andreymal I already tried to reinstall it and deleted the .vscode folder, and there were the task.json and launch.json files. After reinstalling, I opened the configuration for Debug (That is, launch.json). And when I try to open the configuration of the builds, nothing happens - Log1c0

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Install Synaptic on your Linux with sudo apt install synaptic command, launch from the application menu or sudo synaptic command, after launch go to the Installed tab, then find the vs code package and click on it with RMB, in the dialog box there are options: Mark for deletion and Mark for complete removal . After clicking note for complete removal, a window pops up where packages appear that will be deleted instead of with vs code, click Apply in the pop-up window and Apply in the main window

  • strangely, I just deleted my vs code, open folders and files disappeared from me, the config was reset - nosferatu-id
 sudo apt purge code rm -r ~/.config/Code