GUI file manager on Gnome 42?

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21

yes.

22

Artistically, I’m dry like an abandoned well!
But if I get some water/ideas, by some climate change caprice, I’ll PM you.
:cloud_with_rain:

23

I don’t see this as a good feature personally. You should avoid using root if possible and when you do should be with sudo and not a root terminal. I just CD and sudo from terminal as needed.

That’s just IMO though

24

Nautilus isn’t meant to run as root and gnome folks actually say not to do so, so yeah it’s a don’t.

I think even gnome terminal isn’t meant itself to be run as the root user for security reasons.

25

You mean with something like:

sudo -s
sudo su
or
su
?

26

As in opening the terminal GUI itself as a root user.

You can call su or sudo within the terminal emulator but the actual GUI isn’t running with elevated privledges and shouldn’t be.

27

Got it! Thanks!
Never occurred to me to that by the way.

28

The best file manager as far as root is concerned regardless the distro or de/wm is the terminal. What are people actually looking to do messing with files as root in a gui other then laziness?

29

Cause other problems by running code as root that wasn’t meant to :upside_down_face:

Linux has layers of access control for a reason, GUI apps should never be run as root

30

I decided t stay with Gnome File a.k.a. Nautilus, with MC a.k.a. Midnight Commander, to remind me of my age.