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That's not entirely true. It works that way because your distro maintainer built a kernel with nearly every module turned on to support the widest range of hardware out of the box.



Sure, but that is the default configuration that most Linux users will encounter.


It would still be reasonably easy to lspci and then compile the drivers into your kernel as needed




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