Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy guide!
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Another alternatives is to use GitHub Codespaces with VSCode on desktop or web. Also, if you have a unused spare machine, one can leverage that without the overhead of being inside a container.
If the host OS is Linux the overhead (memory and CPU) is negligible, you will still pay with extra space and the complexity of working in a container. The advantage is that the host machine remains clean, which is something desirable when you work on multiple projects and you need different system libraries for each one.