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Debloating S/L/E (deleting unnecessary kexts)

Zeisz

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145000
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I3 8145U
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Intel UHD 620
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10.14.x
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  1. Clover (UEFI)
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Hello everyone. I am running Catalina on my laptop. I've deleted everything from EFI/CLOVER/Kexts/Other and installed the kexts I need in L/E and everything works atm. But I have another issue, when I take a look at S/L/E there are so many kexts and at least %90 of those are not used by my laptop. There are like 20 Kexts for AMD only while my sistem has no AMD component. Is there a way to see what kexts that are in my S/L/E is being used by the system so I can delete everything else ?
 
No, it's better to leave them as they are, do not touch the extensions folder.
 
Hello everyone. I am running Catalina on my laptop. I've deleted everything from EFI/CLOVER/Kexts/Other and installed the kexts I need in L/E and everything works atm. But I have another issue, when I take a look at S/L/E there are so many kexts and at least %90 of those are not used by my laptop. There are like 20 Kexts for AMD only while my sistem has no AMD component. Is there a way to see what kexts that are in my S/L/E is being used by the system so I can delete everything else ?
Only install the required kexts. For the other Vanilla kexts, leave as it is.
 

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