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For me, it's mostly compatibility. Until recently, Windows was required for remote access for my job.

Edit: looks like VS Code is available on Linux.

I use Windows mostly, but just FYI VS Code does run on Linux.

Cool, thanks!

Vscode runs great on windows and Linux. MS has actually made the remote VScode option so you can click a button and suddenly you are running a WSL2 headless Ubuntu box in Windows. Could be just embrace extend extinguish though then everyone is supposed to use azure in a couple years.

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