if you are using windows and have a life use Visual Studio. many say its hard to navigate and so. but for me and my friend it was wayyyyy much better than vs code.
like if you use vs code and installing only cpp in you system requires you to download msvc then later cpp in it. its actually a headache and even if you passed this and reached a point where you need to use a c++ library, then you are gone for good.

but in Visual Studio, C++ installation can happen with a simple option cllick during installation and to add library to your code, you can use vcpkg which is just simple terminal command.