Desktop icon behavior survey results

Here's the data! Thank you all for filling the survey I mentioned in my other post here. We got 1518 full responses total, which is a lot! Without further ado, here's the data in charts. FYI: I am not a data scientist, just a random guy trying to piece up something. General usage statistics First I want to go through some general usage stuff. What is your desktop icon usage like? In general, people tend to actually not use them much. They still may have some icons, but they get mostly ignored. A lot of people use the desktop as a place to store temporary files they're working on, then presumably move them somewhere else when done with them. As a to-do list of sorts. Then there's shortcuts to applications people use a daily. Lastly, not as many store files on desktop regularly. So to me it seems that people ignore them most of the time, but use them as shortcuts for apps to do work, or just need a temporary place for something they're working on. Note that this was a multichoice…

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