What do you do with the download after downloaded? Sorta.

Once an app/zip file/font etc. had been downloaded....I'm supposed to drag and drop to folder. Let's use applications as an example. I download Firefox. Drag/drp to app folder. Install etc.
Now, FF icon is on desktop under macHD icon. If/When FF disappears from dock, I select this icon (the one under macHD), then a little 3x5 window pops up-the same one that I used to drag the original FF to the app folder. Should that still be there? Do I delete it? And why do I have to have all these icons on my desktop? I want something like the PC start menu.
Thanks

"Extract" means to transfer the application out of the archive or disc image. Zip or SIT archives, for example, must have their contents extracted by an unarchiver such as Stuffit Expander or The Unarchiver - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
With a disc image the actual file is contained on the disc image. When you double-click the .dmg file the disc is mounted on the Desktop. The file is stored on the mounted disc.
I don't know what most users use as a base, frankly. I've found both Windows and Mac OS as well as the several others I've used to be relatively easy to learn by just working with them and forgetting about what the other one did or how. But if you feel the need you can look at:
Switch 101 .

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