Keep Desktop clean of folders ?

[fab5freddy]

I have heard many people say that keeping alot of folders on the desktop
slows down your Mac because of Memory usage..., but how about keeping
1 folder on the desktop called "Stuff", Would that also slow down the computer, if the "stuff" folder was 1 GB ?

In other words, is it the amount of folders or the size of the folders, that matters ??

thanks!

 

[swiftaw]

It's the number of folders

 

[fab5freddy]

ok, but then does it also hog RAM, if the 1 folder is 5 GB...?

 

[eXan]

ok, but then does it also hog RAM, if the 1 folder is 5 GB...?

No.

 

[fab5freddy]

thanks for the info, but is there somewhere that documents this ?

does this also apply to windows PC's, Linux as well ?