It's not just that. There is also the matter of laptop getting broken (we all have proper backups, right? right?), stolen, ...

So I do see the appeal in thin client. My only issue is that the experience his closely tied to latency, so sometimes working over ssh is... irritating. Especially on mobile connection.

It’s all Docker images under the covers, so our devs also have the option of downloading and running that image locally instead of in a Codespaces VM. That was always possible before, of course, but Codespaces gave us the impetus to invest the effort in Dockerizing the dev environment more rigorously.

Oh, that is cool. Sounds like a nice mix actually. Local vim, browsers, known system. And container with mount-bind to actually compile and run stuff in.

I like it a lot.

My usually setup is chrome dev tools and some node servers fired up, so quite easy to replicate.

But I still prefer to just move my laptop around.