I imagine that the respective user wouldn't want to see the number of background processes for all the other modern OSes, in this case :-)

Alpine Linux boots with a fairly clean process table.

Of course, this is the internet... Someone is going to point out exceptions.

I was talking about Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, all mainstream Linux distros.

What you did was like seeing someone talk about family cars and interjecting: yeah, but they're slower than my motorbike. It's not the same thing, is it?

You said

> all the other modern OSes

Alpine is a modern OS; I've been quite happy running on my desktop. I would argue that you're moving the goalposts because I pointed out an example that disagrees with you.