Regarding VS Code

We have no shortage of issues with vscode working with the HPC servers via remote access. Microsoft is aware of these issues and there is no reliable fix for them yet. For python work we highly suggest pycharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). It offers most of the same features as vscode but in a much more focussed, unified (across OS's) and reliable way. We'd be happy to setup a meeting to review pycharm and see if its a good fit to replace vscode for you.

FOR THE RECORD

There is a bug with new VS code that limits the versions of linux that it will work with as a remote server:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/8063

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/linux

One suggestion was to use older version of VS code, which can be found here and still appears to work (as of Oct 2024):

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_85

MAC NEWER VS CODE UNINSTALL

when you uninstall, remove all the extraneous files:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42603103/how-to-completely-uninstall-vs-code-on-mac

Follow the top answer which is this:

Here are all the places where VSCode stores stuff on Mac OS X, besides the Visual Studio Code.app itself, which is in your Applications folder:

rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt/
rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/
rm -fr ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.microsoft.VSCode.savedState/
rm -fr ~/.vscode/
rm -rf ~/.vscode*