Is there someone else thinking of installing Visual Studio and the full stack required to develop .NET but is a bit scared of filling their system with many GB

Is there someone else thinking of installing Visual Studio and the full stack required to develop .NET but is a bit scared of filling their system with many GB of stuff that is probably not immediately necessary and installing services that will probably not be of use anytime soon, slowing their machine down and making it not as "versatile" anymore as they would like it to stay? Of the times I installed VS in past, just to toy with it, I remember that after installing it I immediately had many ram eager services loading at startup and had a dozen items more in "installed applications" and whatnot which were all strictly interconnected making always hard to find - in case you wanted to remove the full thing - if you managed to do it fully. ..what version of VS would you suggest to install anyway?