It's fairly easy to trim down what runs on Raspbian. so if your only concern is background tasks eating RAM, you don't need something like Alpine to fix that is

It's fairly easy to trim down what runs on Raspbian. so if your only concern is background tasks eating RAM, you don't need something like Alpine to fix that issue. We use Pis at my work for running slideshows, and while performing their duty they use about 123MB of RAM for all running software (mostly our software + monitoring tools).