[chlorion]

It's trivial to prove that this is true for most software. Luckily modern OS's are able to measure and report various performance stats for processes.

You can open some software such as htop right now, and it will show how much CPU time each process on your system has actually used. On my system the vast majority of processes spend the majority of their time doing nothing.

Is it true for all software? Of course not! Something like my compositor for example spends a lot of time doing software compositing which is fairly expensive, and it shows quite clearly in the stats that this is true.

[lylejantzi3rd]

The "vast majority of software" is now defined as "processes that happen to run in the background on chlorion's machine?" That reasoning is not sound.