"You do not want everything to be statically linked, that would be a nightmare." For a desktop system, you really do. The space and storage drawbacks are hist

"You do not want everything to be statically linked, that would be a nightmare." For a desktop system, you really do. The space and storage drawbacks are history with modern systems; the only remaining issue is that a user has to wait for the developer of their application to release a new version to get security updates, and that's not nearly as much an issue for a desktop system, where a user can just choose not to use software that's not updated promptly.