If you're looking for an alternative to #VSCode for reasonably straight-forward workflows, you might find #Kate a capable option. It even looks an behaves a lot like vscode these days.

It features highlighting and completion and built-in git - which personally I like more than vscode.

It also has a built-in terminal.

It's not as polished, and there are no 3rd party extensions, but if you don't need a lot of bells and whistles and prefer #free and #opensource software - or you detest #microsoft - it might work for ya!