@ matthiasz:-
Puppy, in 'standard' trim, running Rox-filer & the JWM window manager, doesn't make use of the /Desktop directory. All icons on the 'desktop' (which is, in fact, a 'pinboard') are, as you've found, direct links to other locations.
Puppy was originally built this way for lightness, and to be as easy on the resources of limited hardware as possible. It's perfectly possible, if you wish, to install the XFCE or even KDE desktop environments.....but if you do that (KDE especially), then you're rather getting away from the 'spirit' of Puppy, and may just as well go for a more conventional Linux distro instead.
You
may be interested in the 'X'-series Puppies, by rg66. These use the XFCE desktop environment instead of the JWM/Rox-filer 'pinboard' combo. You can find them here:-
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/
Or, you may find peebee's LXPup series to be more to your liking. These are based around the LXDE desktop instead. They can be found here:-
http://lx-pup.weebly.com/downloads.html
Puppy's biggest selling-point has always been flexibility, despite being intended for low-resource hardware.
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Originally Posted by business_kid
There is the program 'useradd'. Sure they only set up one user. But it's only a matter of time before you do something like 'rm -rf *' and then realize you're in the wrong directory.
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That's an understandable assertion. But the majority of 'Puppy' users tend to spend as little time in the terminal as possible; most members tend to be more GUI-oriented than 'traditional' Linux users, who do a
lot of stuff in the terminal. It's just the 'Puppy' way.
Mike.