I worked in London in the mid 00's with someone who did this.
- He worked 2 Days at London Office, 3 days WFH in Spain.
- He would book his flights about 3 weeks in advance and stay in a cheap hotel for 1 night.
- As a contractor/sole trader, he could offset some of the costs against his taxes.
If I remember correctly, his reasoning was that the combination of costs, better weather, and being close to friends/family made it worthwhile.
I believe redhat staff use thinkpads (t-series and x-series)), meaning support for Linux is pretty good out of the box, and you can find a fix/ workaround for most issues on a fedora forum.
I moved to ConEmu: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
from Console2 at work. I find that to be even more feature rich than Terminator for Linux which I use at home.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drumm
It took 10 yrs to convict them mind you, and as I understand it they’re all out now.