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VSCode is no longer compatible with Ubuntu 18.04, here's what you can do

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Summary of the issue: There will be a significant number of Linux machines that will be unable to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) v1.86 (the latest version).

This is due to VS Code v1.86 requiring glibc >= 2.28.

Impacted Linux distros include Ubuntu 18.04, RHEL7 / CentOS 7, Amazon Linux 2, and more.

Impacted users include many researchers in medicine / government / academia, scientific equipment, Amazon EC2 customers, and others.

Some potential workarounds posted in the GitHub thread, but no definitive support path for those who are unable to upgrade at this time.

GitHub thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/203375

As far as I know offline installs of VSCode on Linux do not autoupdate.

And package manager installs should not update beyond what the environment supports.

Reading the reddit post it seems like the poster was using vscode on Windows to work in an Ubuntu WSL 18.04 environment in Windows and the Windows version of vscode updated beyond what the WSL environment could handle.

Which is... one way of doing it.

Is there an industry term for a type of person that breaks backwards compatibility because they think they can rewrite it better?

In the last 7 years, things have gotten really really bad. Thankful the Linux kernel devs haven’t taken this approach.

Is there a similar term for people that go 6 years without upgrading their os? Especially when it's been declared unsupported?

No, really, who is the person that demands to be able to use 2024 software on an unsupported eol distro from 6 years ago?

RHEL7 is still very much supported

>Is there a similar term for people that go 6 years without upgrading their os? Especially when it's been declared unsupported?

You mean installing the default linux for EC2 instances? I think there are quite a few of those people, actually!

Ubuntu 18.04 isn't supported anymore. When I first wrote this I thought there was another couple of months, but then I saw 2023. We're in 2024.

Not sure of the uproar if that is the case.

It's not just Ubuntu. Anyone using Centos 7 or RHEL 7 which are not EOL yet has run into this issue, too.

Use Codium. https://vscodium.com/

Anything Microsoft-branded will shoot you in the face sooner or later.

Are they not updating the minimum required version of glibc? I'm already using it instead of the "official" release for other reasons.

I do wonder what features of newer glibc it's using now, I assume it's something in the underlying electron layer.

Does anyone use Ubuntu 18.04 anymore?

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