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Why are Realtek drivers 900 MB big? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been wondering this for years. I remember some years ago I was wondering why in the world an audio driver needs to be 500 MB big. Now we're almost at 1 GB.

What gives?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can always download the package and just extract the driver and skip installing the whole software package.

Or... Switch to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The size is not a problem. I'd just like to know the reason for it.