This is exactly how I've been working for the past 18 months or so, and it's just fine. In our new offices however, we have a ton of these little breakout room

This is exactly how I've been working for the past 18 months or so, and it's just fine. In our new offices however, we have a ton of these little breakout rooms which hold 2 or 3 people at most and are equipped with large screen televisions. I've been finding that if I hole up in one of those, connect my laptop to the monitor, and move my terminal window onto the television, I'm able to fit two huge pagefuls of vim, and I'm quite happy with it. At home I've been using my Macbook with my Linux machine, connected through the mouse/keyboard sharing app Synergy, found here: http://synergy-foss.org/ http://synergy-foss.org/