I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu. There is no specific use case, it is just a feature I miss from windows.

EDIT: I always expect a degree of hostility and talking-down from the desktop Linux community, but the number of people in this thread telling me I am using my own computer that I bought with my own money in a way they don’t prefer while ignoring my question is just absurd and frankly should be deeply embarrassing for all of us. I have strongly defended the desktop Linux community for decades, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth.

Thank you to the few of you who tried to assist without judgement or assumptions.

  • JediwanOP
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    gedit, gparted, many others. I am not afraid of the terminal it’s just not my preferred method.

    • @priapus
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      61 month ago

      gedit uses polkit and should prompt you with a password when modifying a file that needs root priviledges. you shouldn’t have to run it as root

      • JediwanOP
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        41 month ago

        Nope, gedit opens fine but you can’t save changes unless you’re root. This is true of every distro I’ve tried.

        • @priapus
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          11 month ago

          ah I may have mixed its behaviour up with kate