These days I would recommend CrowdSec over fail2ban.

Right?!! Consider this - if you replace the scroll wheel with two buttons, which one would you press to scroll down?

There’s a long list of caveats when running VS Code over SSH. By comparison, text editors:

• Work on Alpine remotes
• Work on older distributions, and other *NIX systems
• Have no problems with SSH key passphrases or security keys
• Only require a few MB of memory
• When run in tmux are largely resilient to SSH connection issues

If you frequently work on remote systems you frequently only get command line access, where you can still use vim/nano/emacs but not a full IDE like VS Code. In that case you might find it more convenient to learn one text editor well and forgo the IDE.

The rationale for using LTS distros is being eroded by widespread adoption of containers and approaches like flatpak and nix. Applications and services are becoming less dependent on any single distro and instead just require a skeleton core system that is easier to keep up to date. Coupled with the increased cost needed to maintain security backports we are getting to a point where it’s less risky for companies to use bleeding edge over stable.