Turned on the computer and was surprised, Linux lives its own life?

Question

linux

In general, I turn on the computer, and I miraculously see that I used to have an empty desktop of year 2. As a result, after turning on the computer, the entire desktop is covered with folders from home / user ** / everything that is shorter in the user directory, everything appeared on the desktop )) You delete something from the desktop, it is not deleted from the desktop, but from the disk, how to solve the problem? And why did it happen, thank you all!)

Answer 1

Create a ~/Desktop directory
and check that the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file contains
the line XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
ps
you deleted/moved the Desktop directory
and rebooted the session/computer.
because of this, the environment variable in the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file
has changed to XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"
how to fix it - restart the session (log out and log in from the account, or just reboot the system

Answer 2

Probably, with the mouse in the explorer, folders were accidentally dragged to a subfolder. Move back.