Automatically determine host OS for remote connection

[legowerewolf]

It's something the extension should be able to know, and it'd be one less step for setting up a new machine.

[tylersmalley]

Thanks for opening the issue!

Tailscale knows the OS of the remote hosts, so we can display that in the machine explorer. You can see that in tailscale status (/Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale status if installed from the App Store). Would including that detail as part of the know help you? What do you mean by it would be one less step for setting up a new machine?

[legowerewolf]

When I click the little icon in the Tailscale machine explorer to open a new VS Code window connected to that machine, the first prompt I get in the new window is "Select the platform of the remote host"

This presumably only happens the once, as the platform selection should get saved in your user settings (and that is often synced), but it's still one more time than it needs to.