Constantly. I think we've used the excuse of "well, what if you just launch it less often?" enough to excuse bad performance defaults, especially when alternative solutions fix the issue with very few trade-offs.

This is going to vary wildly by what you do and how much CLI you use.

I’m an SRE and the answer is “constantly”. I get pulled in a lot of directions, it’s way easier to maintain context if I open a new terminal or tab for each thing.

Joe asks about something, I open a terminal. Teammate asks about something, new terminal. Joe replies, I swap back to his terminal to look at the scrollback buffer.

I’m closer to you when doing more dev work. One tab running a watcher for builds and restarting the app, one tab to run tests or whatever, a couple for poking around if I need to grep or curl or whatever.

Maybe once a minute, though it's bursty so more like 4 times every 4 minutes, but I still didn't notice the nvm slowdown

I set the framework key in function row to pop a new terminal. It's amazing.

For every query and commands. I don’t use a DE, so pretty much everything is cli based. I use xterm and it’s bound to mod4+Return for me.