Run without root privilege?

[Turgon-Aran-Gondolin]

It's generally not a good idea to run vscode with root privilege. Is there any way to bypass that?

[iCharlesZ]

If VSCode is installed as a system, you need to run VSCode as an administrator to use the extension normally.
If you install VSCode as user, you do not need to run as an administrator.

[Turgon-Aran-Gondolin]

Then what about Linux? Normally one would install with default package manager, and that would amount to the system version in Windows.