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That's an interesting point and I can't really compare that.

But I noticed with an old thinkpad (x220) that I can reduce overall resource consumption and prolong battery life just by switching everything I can to a more terminal-centered workflow.

Ranger consumes less than dolphin, I use NMTUI because i3wm doesn't have a clickable task bar item for configuring WiFi (at least in my setup) and VIM/NVIM consume less than VSCode, IntelliJ, Atom or other editors.

Clearly there is a difference when you compare an electron app to some other running in the JVM or natively but in the end I have the feeling that terminal apps run better and faster.

Another very important thing in my opinion is the possibility to use these apps via SSH which is still my preferred way to remotely use computers (no VNC, RDP, teamviewer etc.).