... except perhaps for the Microsoft telemetry that is active in the distributed VScode binaries [1]?
To quote user ilaksh in this thread: "They will set it up so that it will _seem_ like your are developing for Linux, but due to some extensions or technicality it will only work on _Linux inside of Windows_.
So from my perspective it is amazing that people think this is a good thing for Linux."
There are good historic reasons to distrust M$.