libc is much smaller than other libraries, and as another has pointed out, compiling it statically will get you only the symbols you actually use, so it doesn't

libc is much smaller than other libraries, and as another has pointed out, compiling it statically will get you only the symbols you actually use, so it doesn't even equal the total size of libc. Which makes more sense? Bloating your executable with ~100+MiB of Qt crap, or bloating it with 100KiB of libc symbols?