Not OP, but I've been trying to get remote development working for years but to no avail. The official response on the GitHub issue [0] in 2019 was:
> The "remote" functionality (SSH/WSL/Docker) is currently only available for VS Code proper, not 3rd party builds.
> [...] /cc @joaomoreno
Last time I checked, Arch Linux users who have the Arch Linux build of VS Code installed still cannot use remote SSH development nor dev containers. I definitely can't get it working on my own development machines.
> The "remote" functionality (SSH/WSL/Docker) is currently only available for VS Code proper, not 3rd party builds.
> [...] /cc @joaomoreno
Last time I checked, Arch Linux users who have the Arch Linux build of VS Code installed still cannot use remote SSH development nor dev containers. I definitely can't get it working on my own development machines.
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/17...