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Which drivers are installed by Ubuntu?
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The number of drivers are in the thousands I imagine. Your list needs to be expanded to include drivers for USB, wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, mouse, keyboard, touchpad, laptop ACPIās (like my Dell and Toshiba you probably donāt have), CPUās, GPUās, etc. Some drivers like Nvidia GPU are optional and appear on Ubuntuās āAdditional Driverāsā tab under āSoftware & Updatesā in the āSystem Settingsā menu.
The majority of drivers donāt come from Ubuntu but rather the Linux Kernel. New Kernel version can add more drivers for new hardware.
Do a search on *.ko files to get an appreciation of the scope of your question. I wouldnāt want to take the time to go through and decide which ones are non-essential.
If today you donāt have an Intel WiFi card would you want to delete the drivers as ānon-essentialā only to have a new Intel wifi card you install not work in the future? Besides after the next Ubuntu kernel update, all the ānon-essentialā drivers you deleted are installed again plus new ānon-essentialā drivers.