Comment by ncruces

100% agree. Remote VSCode over SSH is great.

The resource consumption on the client doesn't bother me one bit. Any minimally decent laptop can put up with that load, on battery power, for hours.

I would agree with “whatever it takes to make the server install leaner, more portable, etc” just without sacrificing many features.

If the server side doesn't run on FreeBSD that's really too bad. If Microsoft makes it hard to improve by not making those bits open source, that's very unfortunate.