Current minimalistic VSCode setup (à la atom/textmate)

settings.jsonc

{
    // NOTE: these settings work well for me
    // using Ruby, Elixir and Assembly languages.
    //
    // I would probably do something different if
    // I worked more with other languages at the moment

    "telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
    "telemetry.enableTelemetry": false,
    "workbench.startupEditor": "newUntitledFile",

    // path at top of editor is very noisy
    "breadcrumbs.enabled": false,

    // minimap on right of editor takes focus
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,

    // vertical lines at start of lines
    "editor.renderIndentGuides": false,

    // can be useful at times, but I want it off by default
    "editor.renderWhitespace": "none",

    // the jury is still out on this one
    "editor.renderLineHighlight": "line",

    // can't remember!
    "editor.overviewRulerBorder": true,
    "editor.hideCursorInOverviewRuler": true,

    // fold unfold of code
    "editor.folding": false,

    // this gives a lot of blinking for my taste, usually!
    "editor.occurrencesHighlight": false,

    // remove a lot of blinking
    "editor.matchBrackets": "never",

    // space at beginning of lines, before line numbers
    "editor.glyphMargin": false,

    // top of the explorer shows opened editors, I don't need that
    "explorer.openEditors.visible": 0,

    // hide left icons ; at time you will have to use shortcuts to
    // get where you need, though!
    "workbench.activityBar.visible": false,
    "workbench.editor.showIcons": true,

    // bottom bar
    "workbench.statusBar.visible": false,

    // more accurate for me
    "editor.cursorStyle": "line-thin",

    // NOTE: a workaround for Elixir completion
    "elixirLS.fetchDeps": false,
    
    // https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zhuangtongfa.Material-theme
    "workbench.colorTheme": "One Dark Pro",

    // To be tweaked if I need to adjust the explorer font size
    // (but then the editor text size must be adjusted as well)
    "window.zoomLevel": 1,

    // Avoid suggestions of Elixir spec completely
    // https://github.com/JakeBecker/vscode-elixir-ls/issues/101
    "editor.codeLens": false,

    "outline.icons": false,
    "workbench.iconTheme": null,

    // I prefer to handle Git operations in GitHub Desktop (separate window)
    "git.enabled": false,

    "timeline.excludeSources": [
        "git-history"
    ]
}