Hi,
Via the software store I installed VSCode and some other programs. Normally when installing on windows you can add them to your path so you can call them from the terminal.
Example
code
And this will open your pwd into vscode
So I thought Ill add it to my path... I checked where the executable is with commands like whereis but yea... It was not available in terminal so it didn't find the executable. How to fix this?
If it was installed as a flatpak it's possible it didn't register in the PATH. Run flatpak list to verify if this is the case. I would suggest to install VSCode using deb package instead, since you will most likely want to use the integrated terminal anyway.
Uninstall from flatpak and then from the software store make sure the "source" selected is .deb and not flatpak.
Visual Studio Code com.visualstudio.code 1.73.1-1667967334 stable flathub system
Fair point. But VSCode was just a example. How to do this with other software aswell?
You may need to provide specific examples since you can with most other software by default.
I have moved a lot of downloads over to snapcraft since that works so flawless on Zorin. Ill see when I'm off metered connection if snap is available within the Software app. Thanks for the responses 
I actually didn't know this as I try to keep the number of flatpaks/snaps/appimages to a minimum, and then usually run them from the launcher instead.
But apparently the executable is isolated behind Flatpak itself so you need a separate command for it to work. I would recommend setting up an alias for it.
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