should i just make accounts with all/most of the available options and see which is used most? spamming my web-page footer with those banners doesn't feel aesthetically pleasing
you might have to read what all those options are about. also, what you are referring to as ethernet may or may not be a specific driver, and tty itself is a somewhat abstract concept, maybe you mean serial - which is often addressed by or attached to TTYs?
make menuconfig should guide you through all possible options and enable you to browse and navigate all the dependencies. maybe deselect all first and then select only the ones you want?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0kuFt1beEg