diff --git a/.ci/license-header.sh b/.ci/license-header.sh
index f5234584fa..565a4a6093 100755
--- a/.ci/license-header.sh
+++ b/.ci/license-header.sh
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ for file in $FILES; do
 	[ "$excluded" = "true" ] && continue
 
 	case "$file" in
-		*.cmake|*.sh|CMakeLists.txt)
+		*.cmake|*.sh|*CMakeLists.txt)
 			begin="#"
 			;;
 		*.kt*|*.cpp|*.h)
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ if [ "$UPDATE" = "true" ]; then
 
 	for file in $SRC_FILES $OTHER_FILES; do
 		case $(basename -- "$file") in
-			*.cmake|CMakeLists.txt)
+			*.cmake|*CMakeLists.txt)
 				begin="#"
 				shell="false"
 				;;
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index fe73f558c9..147d175989 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2025 Eden Emulator Project
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2026 Eden Emulator Project
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)
@@ -41,14 +41,26 @@ if (PLATFORM_NETBSD)
     set(ENV{PKG_CONFIG_PATH} "${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:${CMAKE_SYSROOT}/usr/pkg/lib/ffmpeg7/pkgconfig")
 endif()
 
+# qt stuff
+option(ENABLE_QT "Enable the Qt frontend" ON)
+option(ENABLE_QT_TRANSLATION "Enable translations for the Qt frontend" OFF)
+option(ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECKER "Enable update checker (for Qt and Android)" OFF)
+option(YUZU_USE_QT_MULTIMEDIA "Use QtMultimedia for Camera" OFF)
+cmake_dependent_option(YUZU_USE_QT_WEB_ENGINE "Use QtWebEngine for web applet implementation" OFF "NOT YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT" OFF)
+set(YUZU_QT_MIRROR "" CACHE STRING "What mirror to use for downloading the bundled Qt libraries")
+cmake_dependent_option(YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT "Download bundled Qt binaries" "${MSVC}" "ENABLE_QT" OFF)
+
+# non-linux bundled qt are static
+if (YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT AND (APPLE OR NOT UNIX))
+    set(YUZU_STATIC_BUILD ON)
+endif()
+
 # TODO: does mingw need any of this anymore
 # static stuff
 option(YUZU_STATIC_BUILD "Use static libraries and executables if available" OFF)
 
 # TODO: StaticBuild.cmake
 if (YUZU_STATIC_BUILD)
-    include(StaticQtLibs)
-
     # lol
     set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
     set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF)
@@ -145,15 +157,6 @@ cmake_dependent_option(ENABLE_SDL2 "Enable the SDL2 frontend" ON "NOT ANDROID" O
 cmake_dependent_option(YUZU_USE_EXTERNAL_SDL2 "Build SDL2 from external source" OFF "ENABLE_SDL2;NOT MSVC" OFF)
 cmake_dependent_option(YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_SDL2 "Download bundled SDL2 build" "${MSVC}" "ENABLE_SDL2" OFF)
 
-# qt stuff
-option(ENABLE_QT "Enable the Qt frontend" ON)
-option(ENABLE_QT_TRANSLATION "Enable translations for the Qt frontend" OFF)
-option(ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECKER "Enable update checker (for Qt and Android)" OFF)
-option(YUZU_USE_QT_MULTIMEDIA "Use QtMultimedia for Camera" OFF)
-cmake_dependent_option(YUZU_USE_QT_WEB_ENGINE "Use QtWebEngine for web applet implementation" OFF "NOT YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT" OFF)
-set(YUZU_QT_MIRROR "" CACHE STRING "What mirror to use for downloading the bundled Qt libraries")
-cmake_dependent_option(YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT "Download bundled Qt binaries" "${MSVC}" "ENABLE_QT" OFF)
-
 option(ENABLE_CUBEB "Enables the cubeb audio backend" ON)
 
 set(EXT_DEFAULT OFF)
@@ -586,6 +589,7 @@ if (ENABLE_QT)
         else()
             AddQt(6.9.3)
         endif()
+
         set(YUZU_STATIC_BUILD ON)
     else()
         message(STATUS "Using system Qt")
@@ -595,7 +599,7 @@ if (ENABLE_QT)
         list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${Qt6_DIR}")
     endif()
 
-    find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Widgets Concurrent)
+    find_package(Qt6 CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS Widgets Concurrent)
 
     if (YUZU_USE_QT_MULTIMEDIA)
         find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Multimedia)
diff --git a/CMakeModules/CopyYuzuQt6Deps.cmake b/CMakeModules/CopyYuzuQt6Deps.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ea8f74233..0000000000
--- a/CMakeModules/CopyYuzuQt6Deps.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 kleidis
-
-function(copy_yuzu_Qt6_deps target_dir)
-    include(WindowsCopyFiles)
-    if (MSVC)
-        set(DLL_DEST "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${target_dir}>/")
-        set(Qt6_DLL_DIR "${Qt6_DIR}/../../../bin")
-    else()
-        set(DLL_DEST "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/")
-        set(Qt6_DLL_DIR "${Qt6_DIR}/../../../lib/")
-    endif()
-    set(Qt6_PLATFORMS_DIR "${Qt6_DIR}/../../../plugins/platforms/")
-    set(Qt6_STYLES_DIR "${Qt6_DIR}/../../../plugins/styles/")
-    set(Qt6_IMAGEFORMATS_DIR "${Qt6_DIR}/../../../plugins/imageformats/")
-    set(Qt6_RESOURCES_DIR "${Qt6_DIR}/../../../resources/")
-    set(PLATFORMS ${DLL_DEST}plugins/platforms/)
-    set(STYLES ${DLL_DEST}plugins/styles/)
-    set(IMAGEFORMATS ${DLL_DEST}plugins/imageformats/)
-	set(RESOURCES ${DLL_DEST}resources/)
-    if (MSVC)
-        windows_copy_files(${target_dir} ${Qt6_DLL_DIR} ${DLL_DEST}
-            Qt6Core$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-            Qt6Gui$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-            Qt6Widgets$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-            Qt6Network$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-        )
-        if (YUZU_USE_QT_MULTIMEDIA)
-            windows_copy_files(${target_dir} ${Qt6_DLL_DIR} ${DLL_DEST}
-                Qt6Multimedia$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-            )
-        endif()
-        if (YUZU_USE_QT_WEB_ENGINE)
-            windows_copy_files(${target_dir} ${Qt6_DLL_DIR} ${DLL_DEST}
-                Qt6OpenGL$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6Positioning$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6PrintSupport$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6Qml$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-				Qt6QmlMeta$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6QmlModels$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-				Qt6QmlWorkerScript$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6Quick$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6QuickWidgets$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6WebChannel$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6WebEngineCore$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-                Qt6WebEngineWidgets$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-				QtWebEngineProcess$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-            )
-            windows_copy_files(${target_dir} ${Qt6_RESOURCES_DIR} ${RESOURCES}
-                icudtl.dat
-                qtwebengine_devtools_resources.pak
-                qtwebengine_resources.pak
-                qtwebengine_resources_100p.pak
-                qtwebengine_resources_200p.pak
-				v8_context_snapshot.bin
-            )
-        endif()
-        windows_copy_files(yuzu ${Qt6_PLATFORMS_DIR} ${PLATFORMS} qwindows$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*)
-        windows_copy_files(yuzu ${Qt6_STYLES_DIR} ${STYLES} qmodernwindowsstyle$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*)
-        windows_copy_files(yuzu ${Qt6_IMAGEFORMATS_DIR} ${IMAGEFORMATS}
-            qjpeg$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-            qgif$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:d>.*
-        )
-    else()
-        # Update for non-MSVC platforms if needed
-    endif()
-endfunction(copy_yuzu_Qt6_deps)
diff --git a/CMakeModules/StaticQtLibs.cmake b/CMakeModules/StaticQtLibs.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index be2f060a25..0000000000
--- a/CMakeModules/StaticQtLibs.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2025 Eden Emulator Project
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-## When linking to a static Qt build on MinGW, certain additional libraries
-## must be statically linked to as well.
-
-function(static_qt_link target)
-    macro(extra_libs)
-        foreach(lib ${ARGN})
-            find_library(${lib}_LIBRARY ${lib} REQUIRED)
-            target_link_libraries(${target} PRIVATE ${${lib}_LIBRARY})
-        endforeach()
-    endmacro()
-
-    # I am constantly impressed at how ridiculously stupid the linker is
-    # NB: yes, we have to put them here twice. I have no idea why
-
-    # libtiff.a
-    extra_libs(tiff jbig bz2 lzma deflate jpeg tiff)
-
-    # libfreetype.a
-    extra_libs(freetype bz2 Lerc brotlidec brotlicommon freetype)
-
-    # libharfbuzz.a
-    extra_libs(harfbuzz graphite2)
-
-    # sijfjkfnjkdfjsbjsbsdfhvbdf
-    if (ENABLE_OPENSSL)
-        target_link_libraries(${target} PRIVATE OpenSSL::SSL OpenSSL::Crypto)
-    endif()
-endfunction()
diff --git a/externals/cmake-modules/DetectPlatform.cmake b/externals/cmake-modules/DetectPlatform.cmake
index 0ad695066b..6475884f1f 100644
--- a/externals/cmake-modules/DetectPlatform.cmake
+++ b/externals/cmake-modules/DetectPlatform.cmake
@@ -149,4 +149,4 @@ endif()
 if (PLATFORM_FREEBSD OR PLATFORM_DRAGONFLYBSD)
     set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS
         "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -L${CMAKE_SYSROOT}/usr/local/lib")
-endif()
\ No newline at end of file
+endif()
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index d8d9e10c9f..6cafe4882a 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2025 Eden Emulator Project
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2026 Eden Emulator Project
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 yuzu Emulator Project
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
@@ -175,11 +175,10 @@ else()
 
     if (YUZU_STATIC_BUILD AND NOT APPLE)
         add_compile_options(-static)
-        if (YUZU_STATIC_BUILD)
-            # yuzu-cmd requires us to explicitly link libpthread, libgcc, and libstdc++ as static
-            add_link_options(-static -lpthread)
-            add_link_options(-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++)
-        endif()
+
+        # yuzu-cmd requires us to explicitly link libpthread, libgcc, and libstdc++ as static
+        add_link_options(-Wl,-Bstatic -static -lpthread)
+        add_link_options(-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++)
     endif()
 
     if (MINGW)
diff --git a/src/yuzu/CMakeLists.txt b/src/yuzu/CMakeLists.txt
index 87d4652b07..35c6f80e40 100644
--- a/src/yuzu/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/yuzu/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2025 Eden Emulator Project
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2026 Eden Emulator Project
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
@@ -426,12 +426,6 @@ if (WIN32 AND NOT YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT AND QT_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 6)
     add_custom_command(TARGET yuzu POST_BUILD COMMAND ${WINDEPLOYQT_EXECUTABLE} "${YUZU_EXE_DIR}/eden.exe" --dir "${YUZU_EXE_DIR}" --libdir "${YUZU_EXE_DIR}" --plugindir "${YUZU_EXE_DIR}/plugins" --no-compiler-runtime --no-opengl-sw --no-system-d3d-compiler --no-translations --verbose 0)
 endif()
 
-# TODO(crueter): this can be done with system qt in a better way
-if (YUZU_USE_BUNDLED_QT)
-    include(CopyYuzuQt6Deps)
-    copy_yuzu_Qt6_deps(yuzu)
-endif()
-
 if (ENABLE_SDL2)
     target_link_libraries(yuzu PRIVATE SDL2::SDL2)
     target_compile_definitions(yuzu PRIVATE HAVE_SDL2)
@@ -443,7 +437,6 @@ endif()
 
 if (YUZU_ROOM)
     target_link_libraries(yuzu PRIVATE yuzu-room)
-target_link_libraries(yuzu PRIVATE Qt6::Widgets)
 endif()
 
 if (NOT MSVC AND (APPLE OR NOT YUZU_STATIC_BUILD))
@@ -455,8 +448,9 @@ if (NOT MSVC AND (APPLE OR NOT YUZU_STATIC_BUILD))
         -Wno-missing-field-initializers)
 endif()
 
-if (YUZU_STATIC_BUILD AND MINGW)
-    static_qt_link(yuzu)
+# Remember that the linker is incredibly stupid.
+if (YUZU_STATIC_BUILD AND MINGW AND ARCHITECTURE_x86_64 AND ENABLE_OPENSSL)
+    target_link_libraries(yuzu PRIVATE OpenSSL::SSL OpenSSL::Crypto)
 endif()
 
 create_target_directory_groups(yuzu)