Up until the early 2000s I used to compile my own kernel, carefully selecting only the options that I needed.
Then I realised that I wasn’t saving memory, because almost everything was a module anyway.
Is there any actual benefit to using a custom kernel on consumer hardware that’s supported by the stock kernels?
The only time I have compiled a kernel in the last 10 years was to bisect to determine what change introduced a bug affecting my particular hardware combination.