Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

For example, the AI uses an Ubuntu sandbox in which it tests code and even installs dependencies on its own. Manus presents coding results in a cloud version of VS Code.

If Visual Studio Code as a Snap seems familiar, that’s because the Ubuntu community created one back in May 2017. Today’s Visual Studio Code Snap meanwhile is officially supported, built, and ...