This was true, and widely known, even in pre-OS X days. I had a colleague who somehow contrived to drag a couple of thousand files onto his desktop, causing his (personal) Mac to go into a swoon from which it never revived. I’ll sometimes drag a web location icon onto the desktop, but I never allow more than half a dozen of these to accumulate. Seeing the typical Windows desktop with half the screen filled with neatly arrayed icons puts my teeth on edge. For the rest, yes, FTFF.
cordially,
cordially,