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Microsoft Canonical: Selling Slop, Proprietary Software, Spyware, and Bloatware
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Ubuntu ☛ AI meets SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu [Ed: Canonical is selling Microsoft and slop. How very shameful.]
SQL server has been a cornerstone of the ongoing collaboration to deliver a seamless Linux experience for developers and enterprises alike. Together, we have been able to meet growing customer demands with a number of joint offerings including ready-made and jointly supported configurations for SQL Server on top of Ubuntu. In this article, we’ll take a look at our latest collaboration: SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu.
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It's FOSS ☛ Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal
The bug itself was reported all the way back in November 2024, and the issue is still present for current Snap versions of VS Code and even VSCodium.
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Copenhagen Post ☛ 2026-01-30 [Older] Microsoft loses billions in biggest stock drop in 6 years
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Microsoft is even gobbling up PC resources on Linux — Visual Studio Code could be hogging hard drive space
Unfortunately, on Ubuntu, there's a pretty nasty bug occurring with the official Snap package delivered via Canonical's store.
As highlighted by How To Geek, the bug regards deleted files not being properly sent to the system trash, and, over time, building up to potentially sizable chunks of storage space being eaten alive.
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Linux users report Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Snap package isn't actually deleting files
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code, installed as a Snap package on a Linux device, has a strange bug that keeps all the files users deleted, clogging up hard drives as a result, leading to a myriad of other problems for the users.
The bug was first spotted by a couple of software developers, who found gigabytes of files that were supposed to be deleted. Some of them discovered the bug after completely running out of space on their computers.
The Register notes the flaw was first detected more than a year ago, and a bug report was published in early November 2024. In the report, it was said that the cause of the issue lies in Snap creating a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, instead of simply using the system one.
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VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files
Linux users who installed Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent to the trash with the app have actually been deleted.
A handful of Linux-based developers have found large amounts of supposedly deleted data on their computers, in some cases consuming hundreds of gigabytes of storage.
The reason for this is Snap – a Linux application packaging format – creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024.