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Follow-up on previous post. To put it less bluntly, JetBrains has made some *very interesting* choices when it comes to migration of IDEA users. The path they recommend is moving Community users to the new "unified distribution", which is a somewhat continuation of Ultimate. 1/2(?)

26/3/26, 11:23 pm1 repost3 likes

WorldWidePixel

@worldwidepixel.ca

26 Mar

What they fail to note is that you can still use the "Open Source" version (which is still labelled as "Community Edition", intentional or not...) JetBrains has also made it difficult to find these continued CE distributions, which are on their GitHub at github.com/JetBrains/in.... 2/2

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WorldWidePixel

@worldwidepixel.ca

26 Mar

3/2. I'm sorry for being pithy about this in my first post about it, but I wanted to make it at least a little more known that *yes, you do have options!* The free version of the new unified distribution is by no means significantly worse, but I prefer the simplicity of CE and will continue w/ it.

Khazoda

@khazoda.com

28 Mar

My community edition prompted me to download unified edition yesterday. Checking their archive page it seems they're totally abandoning CE. I think 25.2 was the last update to it that they're doing.

Khazoda

@khazoda.com

28 Mar

The CE download was already tucked away where they didn't want us to find it but this is just extra disappointing. Like you said, unified edition isn't exactly bad, but forcing a big green upgrade button right next to important actions is too much. I'll just keep using outdated CE