All together now, breath through your nose... A... that's better.
Yes, this is a longstanding issue, but maintaining a major component of
an OS is no small task, I'm sure you know. The Unity desktop dev team,
I'm sure, are working their tails off to improve the s/ware, which
includes
Affirming that I can reproduce the "can't drag a link icon around on the
desktop" issue on 16.04
When reporting it separately was referred to this thread by sysop.
Looks like this issue's been around a long while.
Like has been said, doesn't prevent core functionality of Ubuntu or
Nautilus, but
