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This makes me really curious, doesn’t Github codespaces uses VScode under the hood ?

I had tested a web version of VScode through code-server self hosted.

It is not totally usable for me, there’s too much issue with text selection and scrolling, it works okay for a moment and in other it was barely usable.

I wonder if you have met similar issues or if you succeeded to overcome those.

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I self-host code-server and I haven't had _many_ issues, but I'm also using a keyboard -- Magic Keyboard? Yeah, I think that's what it's called.

For background, I have a bunch of VMs on a Proxmox server and I set up code-server on each in a custom Ansible role.

It's very nice to be able to edit config files, etc on each machine through VSCode, and have a terminal emulator built-in.

It's not perfect, and I don't use it much since I also have a laptop, but it allows me to do quick tasks on a specific machine quite quickly and painlessly if I just have the iPad at hand.

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