[CuriousSkeptic]

When I was running Linux one metric that mattered to me in choice of editor was the time it took to launch an editor from command line.

Anything spending time loading plugins or whatever before giving you text on screen and responding to commands is frustrating if the only requirement is to quickly tweak a setting in a config file or just viewing a text file.

I guess it’s less noticeable on windows since everything is GUI based and quite unresponsive by default. But when spending your days in a terminal you get used to a certain snappiness that’s noticeable once interrupted.

Edit: Btw an interesting in-depth analysis of typing latency with measurements https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/