Making "shortcuts" on Zorin OS already exists, but what I really want is to make an app shortcut and add it to a desktop FOLDER.
Desktop shortcuts function normally, but when I drag that same shortcut to a desktop folder, the shortcut just stops working and it acts as a ".txt" file.
Does anyone know a solution to this?
Maybe a solution that... makes shortcuts work in a similar way to Windows? Please? ;w;
Gnome (What Zorin Core uses) must contain .desktop files in either ~/.local/share/applications/ or ~/Desktop, otherwise, it will see them as a text file.
My workaround was to leave the .desktop file in place, then symlink to it from the desired folder.
You might try right click > Properties and settings its executable permissions after moving it, though. I have heard that might work.
Was just about to say about properties myself. 
is that mainly a Gnome issue or can Zorin fix that? 'cause (trying to not be rude, especially because I have little knowledge about Linux) that's... too much work for making a shortcut work in a folder
I do not understand this statement. A symlink is one command whereas creating a desktop shortcut is multiple different steps, including creating a file, adding all relevant info to it... The symlink is literally the least amount of work a person could do.
... oh, well that makes things more clear to me 
but one question, for the symlink to work, do I need to have the desktop file in the desktop? or do I simply create a symlink directly to the app and that's it?
True... I was not very clear.
To create a symlink, it won't matter which User owned folder you are in or which you link to.
Um... I am sure that there is a GUI method, but I do not know it...
I use terminal.
To create a symlink, all you need is ln -s which ln is Link and the -s is symbolic - followed by the path to the opject you are linking and the path directing to the new symlink location.
For example; you want to symlink on object called 'GlobalDominationplan` that is in your home desktop folder, but link to it in your home secret-documents vault folder.
ln -s ~/Desktop/GlobalDominationplan.txt ~/secret-documents/vault/GlobalDominationplan
