[dist-epoch]

The need to start the server is really annoying. Especially when you have notebooks in multiple places, or multiple virtual envs.

This is why I moved to working with Jupyter notebooks in VS Code, there is no server to manually start.

[pletnes]

Vscode will start the server for you, in practice. This is great if you just want to get going. It gives you a bit less flexibility though, if you want to do something fancy.

Vscode can also connect to existing servers. This can be very useful. For instance, you can put a ton of data and CPU in a server and work with vscode on a small laptop. If network latency is low enough, this works great.