remotePlatform notification is sometimes shown unnecessarily

[akosyakov]

Is there an existing issue for this bug?

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Required Troubleshooting Steps

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• [ ] I have tried both values of the remote.SSH.useLocalServer setting

Connect Locally

It connects successfully

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Expected Behavior

We configure remote platform using wildcard syntax in user settings to prevent the prompt on each connection. It works nicely, but on Windows a user still sees a following notification in the remote window:

You selected "linux" as the remote platform - this will be stored in the setting "remote.SSH.remotePlatform" and can be changed there if needed.

Although a user is not prompted anymore.

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[akosyakov]

I see although we use wildcards the machine gets added explicitly to the settings. It is not very nice because user settings keep growing. It only manifests on Windows, I don't observe the same on Mac. And only via Remote SSH, if it is devcontainer over SSH then there is only annoying notification, settings are not updated.

[roblourens]

On Windows, remote.SSH.useLocalServer is implicitly false. You can set it to true in settings.json to prevent this.

[jpfeuffer]

Hi @roblourens One question: Why does the Preference UI show useLocalServer as activated on Windows if as you are saying-- and I confirmed-- it is implicitly set to false. This led to a nightmarish debugging journey on our side.