At work I have a Windows laptop connected to a dock with two monitors. I have a Kinesis freestyle keyboard. Most of my development is done on a remote Linux box, so pretty much everything I do is through SSH. I use a variety of software to make this as pleasant as possible:

dtach - this is a life saver whenever I get disconnected from the interwebs. It detaches a process from the controlling terminal.

dvtm - a tiling terminal manager. I used to use gnu screen but I prefer the layouts that dvtm offers. This plus dtach replaces 99% of what I used screen for.

Vim - my text editor of choice.

pyclewn - integrates gdb with vim nicely.