It’s useful to have updated drivers if a game or something isn’t working, otherwise it’s hardly a big deal, just need to keep the sysyem as up to date as it needs to run your sysyem, i’m on mint since October and never uad any headaches, even updates drivers recently to try to resolve an issue.

Uk doesn’t have a universal id which is why they are using face recognition for the check.

You can provide a drivers licence but maybe the guy doesnt have one.