With nginx becoming more popular this may have changed.

But I just looked, and the official lesson on "installing wordpress" mentions only Apache[0]. As does the "how to install WordPress"[1]. Though checking a recent download, I see that it no longer ships with .htaccess by default, so apparently things are changing.

[0] https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plan/local-install/ [1] https://wordpress.org/support/article/how-to-install-wordpre...