[PaulKeeble]

Certainly for desktop software and user utilities I take consideration of power consumption and idle load especially. There is a strong overlap with performance but also there is being a well behaved application that doesn't consume resources when the user isn't directly doing anything.

Its a common reason why I get rid of open source self hosted apps. If they hammer the disk all the time or seem to constantly impact the CPU when they shouldn't be then it gets replaced. I want my NAS asleep unless it has to be doing something. Its a consideration I raise bugs around and its something all software I have ever written takes account of.