The top reason my friends won't switch to Cursor is…

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I have told about 15 friends & colleagues about Cursor. Out of the 12 that actually installed it and gave it a shot, only 4 swichted (more like 3.5).

The top reason is that extension import is broken. Many extensions do not transfer. And when you search for them in the extension tab… they don’t show up. You have to manually download them from the VSX website and drag the file. MASSIVE friction.

The second reason is the horizontal navigation bar. People really hate it, and searching for the settings.json key is too much friction.

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Hi @stanlrt

If the extensions aren’t showing up, try reinstalling Cursor by following these steps:

About the horizontal navigation bar, I don’t like it either, so I made it look like the one in VSCode:

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Reinstalling does not fix the extension issue.
The activity bar workaroun works, but most first time users will not bother looking for it. They see a weird unusual and inconvenient UI, and go back to VSCode.

I am personally fine with those 2 issues, but as I said they are top reasons why people do not switch to Cursor based on my experience.

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Let’s just keep it that way. :slight_smile:

Some engineers’ egos are too strong and big to acknowledge that AI is better than them.

Lol giving up because of import? So are they gonna just quit their job if their mac fails on them because they don’t want to deal with installing new extensions?

K

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Not sure what ego has to do with this. Also, which self-respecting engineer uses a Mac? Masochists excluded of course.

Humans are lazy. Until people experience Cursor, they will default to VSCode. So if the first experience ■■■■■, they simply won’t stay. UX 101.

Anyway, Cursor tried their best addressing the extension problem with openVSIX and relicensing MSFT’s locked ones.