What is the lowest number of background processes/services/daemons that you can have on OS (OSX, Desktop linux, Windows) and still have a usable OS?
might be of interest: <a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/running-windows-with-no-services/ba-p/723386" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/...</a>
?? embedded/iot, customized[1], or stock OS??<p>?? does text display/command line only useage count as usable (vs. gui interface).<p>"Linux from scratch"[0] provides a way to experiement what what 'still have a usable OS' is.<p>IOT/ebmedded/customized OS (linux & windows) can be setup to act as a relay between local screen and remote server/cloud. There would be no backround processes/services/daemon on the local box.<p>--------<p>[0] : <a href="https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/</a><p>[1] : yocto : <a href="https://www.yoctoproject.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.yoctoproject.org/</a>
The answer is 1: init=/bin/bash.<p><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/473252" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/473252</a>