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For what it's worth, you can open a remote directory via SSH from vscode. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/linux

Want to have your mind blown? Microsoft (yes that Microsoft) officially supports remote development on Windows Server via SSH. As in, run vscode on your Linux box, create an SSH remote on your Windows Server, develop remotely on the server via SSH. Fully supported.



>supports remote development on Windows Server via SSH

I was excited for this as a way to avoid touching Windows altogether, but it works pretty crappily in my experience.


I'm curious: What is a typical use case for this?


Porting cross-platform projects to the operating system that looks and feels very different to pretty much everything else out there. I prefer doing that from the comfort of my primary desktop OS.




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