To answer your other question, no, Desktop is not a symlink. It does, however, have a symlink in it that points to a subdirectory in the home folder (i.e. ~/Desktop/a.pdf points to ~/talks/a.pdf)
It also contains some files owned by root.
To answer your other question, no, Desktop is not a symlink. It does, however, have a symlink in it that points to a subdirectory in the home folder (i.e. ~/Desktop/a.pdf points to ~/talks/a.pdf)
It also contains some files owned by root.