• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    In contrast to the other user folders, the desktop is filled with program links that won’t even work anywhere else.

    As someone who used to work in IT I wish that was the case. The desktop is a catch-all for basically anything that might momentarily enter a user’s field of vision.

    Application shortcuts, URL shortcuts, broken application and URL shortcuts, PDFs, images, a copy of their child’s baby album, a folder that’s just called “stuff” where all their actual work is saved, seven different copies of the same recipe for homemade pasta sauce, six empty files named “New Text Document”, and a recycle bin full of things too important to delete.

    But you can’t put anything anywhere else, because they “have a system.”