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Is there any upside compared to using the SSH Remote extension? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

It automatically sets up the server for me on any machine I can SSH into and I can use real VSCode instead of the browser version.

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Benefits of code-server is that it requires zero tooling on the client except a browser. I can use e.g. someone's iPad to quickly do some edits vs requiring my laptop with SSH keys. Other than that, using native vscode is a bit faster and has all keyboard shortcuts working. I use both vscode remote with SSH and "code server" behind NGINX.

That is proprietary, code-server is completely Free

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