[mid-kid]

One thing I noticed is that you're running `ldd` on every executable file on the system. Incidentally, `ldd` returns valid output when ran on .so files (which are always executable). This means you're counting an extra use of certain libraries not just for the executables that use them but also the libraries that depend on them.

Also it seems like you're also scanning a bunch of flatpak apps and steam apps, which provide an environment for common libraries, but expect each program to statically link anything not shipped within these common environments.

Both of these skew the graph of most used libraries, and the former skews the additional space required for static linking a little.

It's also worth mentioning that inlining, the lack of a requirement for symbol names/version info/dependency info, and dead code stripping, make static binaries significantly smaller than the size of program + so.

I'm a huge proponent of shared libraries, but these numbers wouldn't really mean much in reality, unfortunately. Though for me, the main benefit of shared libraries is being to individually patch and upgrade them, without a care for how many apps actually use them nor how. This has been a godsent in terms of adding functionality and making my computer behave like I want it to.