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    "my answer would be that not everyone is technological sound to do so " Every single person using Linux on the desktop loads a bunch of modules every single time they boot - why do you say people can't do this? Commented Mar 8, 2021 at 12:01
  • @PhilipKendall i am saying with my experience my siblings,friends,parents and teacher they are able to use some flavour of linux for basic browsing thats all they do not care the size of operating system . but i do care i cant accept that there is a driver in my system which i will never use in my entire file . its useless space eating thing. Commented Mar 8, 2021 at 12:07
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    "i cant accept that there is a driver in my system which i will never use in my entire file " you would not BELIEVE the amount of unused junk Windows is carrying around with it. Commented Mar 8, 2021 at 12:47
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    If you really care, build yourself a custom kernel image which contains only the drivers you need. I have better things to do with my life than save myself a few Mb of storage. Commented Mar 8, 2021 at 12:49
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    @user143252 you can't download new packages without a network driver. So the bare minimum is to include all the possible network and wifi cards. Oh, and you need all the disk, disk controller, and cdrom drivers in order to start up and to have somewhere to download them to. And so on... Commented Mar 8, 2021 at 13:48