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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

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

snakeyjake 3y ago
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.