Microsoft Relents, Will Support VS Code On Ubuntu 18.04 For One More Year

Microsoft Relents, Will Support VS Code On Ubuntu 18.04 For One More Year

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• One of the early reasons for switching to Linux was the fact that M$ continually forced upgrades on people. Linux allowed people to continue to utilize older hardware without all the bloat. It seems to be less of an issue as of late. Probably because what we now consider to be older hardware can still run the newest software.

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    That's revisionist, unless you think early was 2015. No back when people were switching to Linux MS wasn't forcing any updates. In fact they didn't have an update system at all.

    In any case the use of Linux for old hardware was about backwards compatibility for hardware, the current supported software running on old iron. That isn't the issue at play here. The issue here is people running outdated software, not because their hardware is unsupported (Ubuntu 20.04 didn't depreciate anything compared to 18.04),

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  The main rub is Ubuntu supported 18.04 through April 2028 with Pro support and Microsoft decided to stop support with no notification. If VSCode is really important to a user this will now give them the tine to upgrade to a newer version.

  https://ubuntu.com/about/relea... [ubuntu.com]

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    Pro support is paid extended security support. Unless you work for a company that is willing to pay for security patches for an operating system that dropped mainstream support nearly a year ago and is now twelve major releases out of date, there's not much reason to be using 18.04 still.

    That said, while I don't begrudge Microsoft dropping support for it, they could still have handled the transition far better, for example by refusing to update if an incompatible version of glibc is detected.

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    Then it's a stupid rub. Pro support for 18.04 is just Security updates, not software updates.

    You're lucky Microsoft relented to give you MORE than even Canonical does. I'd have just shown you the door and laughed.

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      And that's why you are you and Microsoft is Microsoft.

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    NO IT'S NOT. Jesus why do people insist on calling a paid for service that is doing the bare minimum of security patching "support". Ubuntu 18.04 is not supported. It's EOL for everyone except the most edge case of customer. Your own link confirms that. There is zero ZERO, NADA, NIL reason to think any feature upgrade on software would support a system that is security life support.

    But hey, if you're paying Canonical for Pro support, then talk to Canonical. The whole point of this support is that *they* bac

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  It's not about devs updating their desktops. It's about being unable to connect to servers running 18.04 (which is still supported in ESM from Canonical) and not being warned that the update would break this connectivity.

  Nobody is running 23.03 on their server. If you run Ubuntu on a server, you're sticking with the LTS releases. So, yes, there are newer LTS releases (20.04 and 22.04) to choose from, but that's missing the point of the LTS releases entirely. The whole reason you install the release with 5 y

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    The updates to VS Code aren't about connecting to servers running 18.04. It's about running VS Code itself, after version 1.85, on 18.04.

    The question becomes what is the critical use case that requires VS Code > 1.85 on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

    There is none. It's just ridiculous social media outrage with no actual technical merit.

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    The only IRONY of your post is how the loudest screams against MSFT is making sure that they don't/can't collect diagnostics/analytics data to quantitatively evaluate how their products are being used.
    
    FWIW, I wholly agree with the gist of your post; MSFT should tag/fork their releases when underlying/pre-existing requirements shift as dramatically as this particular one has... which was probably driven by a security compliance effort rather than through general technical compatibility merits alone.

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  First, let's pump the brakes on the bad advice. Most people should not consider updating to 23.03, that's a dead end. 23.10 is an option, but 22.04 is what is recommended right now.

  Is there any convincing reason to upgrade an 18.04 system? I think the burden of proof is on the one taking the action rather than the one that is continuing to use a working OS. While official support for 18.04 has ceased, mostly meaning that packages are not going to be updated except for high priority security fixes. Ubuntu 18

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  To be clear the current upgrade path for 18.04 LTS is to 22.04 LTS. That is the most current version.