Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel and Linux newbie. Some Questions

[onpon4]

I guess, looking at it, you can create a "shortcut" on Windows which points  
to a document. Nonetheless, this is not a common activity in my experience,  
and in a technical sense, shortcuts (with the extension ".lnk") are more  
similar to launchers than symbolic links. They operate through Windows  
Explorer, and do not have any effect in any other context.

The typical use-case of shortcuts on Windows is to launch applications more  
conveniently. A key point about this usage is that a shortcut includes an  
icon; symbolic links do not.