Summary of the issue:<p>There will be a significant number of Linux machines that will be unable to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) v1.86 (the latest version).<p>This is due to VS Code v1.86 requiring glibc >= 2.28.<p>Impacted Linux distros include Ubuntu 18.04, RHEL7 / CentOS 7, Amazon Linux 2, and more.<p>Impacted users include many researchers in medicine / government / academia, scientific equipment, Amazon EC2 customers, and others.<p>Some potential workarounds posted in the GitHub thread, but no definitive support path for those who are unable to upgrade at this time.
Half the time I end up dropping to a cli anyway. At this point I’m really not sure what VSCode adds once you’ve learned the tool at hand. Node or .Net or whatever can all be programmed effectively outside of VSCode. Just ditch it.
The issue has been locked to prevent further comment. The latest reply as of now is:<p>> <i>We'll be following up with next steps for a viable alternative workaround in #203375, that does not involve disabling updates.</i>